Rising temperatures last year marked the world’s hottest decade in modern times, federal climate scientists said Thursday. In a new climate study, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ranked 2016 as the …
Read More »Plans to launch Space ETF after dominating with Kathy Wood ARKK
After a stratospheric year, Kathy Wood’s Ark Investment Management is ready to take it one step further: into space. The New York-based firm plans to launch the ARK Space Exploration ETF (ticker …
Read More »NASA’s Juno and Insight missions are getting bonus time
Two upcoming NASA missions will study Earth-threatened space weather
On June 20, 2013, a solar coronal mass ejection was seen. The image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / SDO Our understanding of the complex interactions responsible for the two new missions …
Read More »Will Axiom Space provide a commercial space station replacement for NASA’s ISS?
Axiom Space has announced that it is building an office park and manufacturing center in the Houston spaceport at Ellington Field. The development is an indication of an expectation that a commercial …
Read More »Gift of Japanese spacecraft: asteroid chips like coal tar
TOKYO (AP) – They resemble small pieces of charcoal, but soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft were hardly disappointing. Samples from Japanese space officials …
Read More »Year in space travel
by Editorial board Close Editorial board December 21, 2020 6:46 pm ET A SpaceX Falcon 9 arises on May 30 from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. …
Read More »Scientists searching for aliens tracking ‘unusual’ radio waves from the sun’s closest star
Scientists involved in a project in search of alien life are now investigating a mysterious radio wave signal that appears to be Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the Sun. Guardian The …
Read More »For NASA, it must be Mars or Bust
Since the Apollo program ended nearly 50 years ago, every newly elected US president has been surrounded by a single question: where is the forward to send astronauts? NASA’s current target is …
Read More »Japan’s space agency gets enough soil, gas from asteroid
TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s space agency officials said on Tuesday that they had found more than anticipated amounts of soil and gases inside a small capsule. Research. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency …
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