Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Boeing’s Starliner mission will make a third attempt Wednesday to launch its first crewed flight test, a milestone a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s maiden voyage with humans on board is … Read more
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during the first manned flight in two years in which one of the New Shepard capsule’s parachutes failed to fully inflate. William Shatner on Jeff Bezos The companies New Shepard rocket launched May 19 taking a crew of … Read more
The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon on a Starship rocket has abruptly canceled the project, citing lingering uncertainties about when the launch vehicle will be ready to fly. “I signed the contract in 2018, thinking that DearMoon would launch at the end of 2023,” Yusaku Maezawa, the project’s … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Boeing’s Starliner plans to launch its first crewed voyage on Saturday, a mission that has been in the works for a decade. The new spacecraft is expected to lift off atop an Atlas … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid called Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary star — two smaller space rocks touching each other — … Read more
Image caption, Artwork: It took over twenty years to get Earthcare into space Item information An advanced joint European-Japanese satellite has been launched to measure how clouds affect the climate. Some low-altitude clouds are known to cool the planet, while others at high altitudes act like a blanket. The Earthcare mission will use a laser … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! ESA Solar Orbiter. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) × close to ESA Solar Orbiter. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) Scientists have moved one step closer to identifying the mysterious origins of the ‘slow’ solar wind, using data collected during the … Read more
NASA’s iconic Hubble Observatory still has years to live, and there are ideas in the works to perhaps keep it running even longer — but those proposals could face an uphill battle. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has been serviced by astronauts five times and remains in good health. But the telescope is … Read more
NASA is preparing to launch its latest climate science mission, the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE), which aims to capture brand new data on how heat is lost from Earth’s polar regions to space . PREFIRE consists of a pair of cubesats launched separately into near-polar orbits. The first, “Ready, Aim, PREFIRE,” … Read more