Virgin Galactic wants the world to see the rocket motor that brought SpaceShipTwo to space. Richard Branson’s commercial spaceflight company made history with the craft, named VSS Unity, when it skimmed the edge of space in December. The rocket motor was donated…
We know what SpaceX’s next-generation Starship looks like. Now we’ve also got a new look at the Raptor engine that will one day rocket it off our planet — and a sublime display from its first test firing, too. Elon Musk posted a…
NASA’s InSight mission is going from strength to strength with news that the Mars lander has successfully positioned its seismometer, ready to listen for marsquakes. NASA announced the news late on Wednesday, tweeting out a GIF of the instrument being placed on…
People couldn’t stop buzzing during the great North American total solar eclipse of 2017. Bees, however, stayed silent. In fact, the little buzzers stopped flying altogether during the big event, according to research published Wednesday in the Annals of the Entomological Society…
The weather was favorable, all systems were go. After a week of delays, SpaceX on Sunday finally launched a satellite that will kick off a new era for GPS navigation technology. At just before 6 a.m. PT, SpaceX tweeted simply ‘Liftoff!‘…
Jimmy Gomez is a California Democrat, a Harvard graduate and one of the few Hispanic lawmakers serving in the US House of Representatives. But to Amazon’s facial recognition system, he looks like a potential criminal. Gomez was one of 28 US…
