Space
Kate Duffy
90-year-old William Shatner had less than 2 hours of sleep and went horse riding with Jeff Bezos before Blue Origin spaceflight, his wingman says
Jeff Bezos and William Shatner "became really good buddies," the Star Trek actor's wingman told Insider.
Kate Duffy
A former Virgin Galactic test pilot who says he was fired after 6 years is joining Blue Origin
Mark Stucky told CNN that Virgin Galactic didn't explain his firing, but that he assumed it was because of comments in the recent book "Test Gods."
Marcia Sekhose
Here’s what space explorations in the very distant future could look like
NASA has shared a video imagining future space explorations. These space vacations make it possible for us to easily explore...
Alia Shoaib
China's new hypersonic missile demonstrated an advanced space capability that caught US intelligence by surprise, report says
China had made "astounding progress" on hypersonic weapons far more advanced than US officials realized, sources told The Financial Times.
Tyler Sonnemaker
Virgin Galactic shares plummet after company says it will delay commercial spaceflights until Q4 2022
Virgin pushed back its timeline amid recent testing that identified "possible reduction in the strength margins" of certain materials.
Lily Katzman
A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars snapped a photo of the Perseverance rover in the crater below
NASA's satellite captured a photo of Perseverance exploring some of the oldest and perhaps most accessible geologic units on Mars' Jezero Crater.
Kate Duffy
NASA moves 2 astronauts from Boeing missions to a future SpaceX launch following serious Starliner delays
Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada were meant to fly on Boeing's Starliner craft, but NASA has reassigned them to a 2022 SpaceX ISS mission.
Marcia Sekhose
All you need to know about NASA’s Lucy mission, the first spacecraft flying to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will launch on October 16 for a 12-year journey to Jupiter. The mission is to study Jupiter’s Trojan ...
Marcia Sekhose
You might be able to take a trip to the stratosphere with a balloon by 2024
World View is developing a balloon-capsule system for trips to the stratosphere. You will fly onboard a pressurised capsule ...
India set to witness its SpaceX moment soon, says Agnikul CEO
The day is not far when India will see its own mega private aerospace company like Elon Musk-owns SpaceX or Jeff Bezos-run Blue Origin, taking travel...
Shadab Rabbani
The James Webb Space Telescope — it’s designed to search the first galaxies formed after Big Bang
Rounak Jain
Scientists are piggybacking on internet satellites to break free from GPS dependence
Scientists are banking on an increasingly dense constellation of Starlink satellites to develop an alternative to GPS. This ...
Blue Origin's second space trip scheduled for October 12, two passengers confirmed
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin has announced its second human flight to space aboard New Shepard on Oc...
Marcia Sekhose
NASA’s Landsat 9 can circle the world in just 8 days — here’s everything that makes the new satellite special
NASA’s Landsat 9 can circle the world in just 8 days — here’s everything that makes the new satellite special...
NASA's InSight lander finds biggest Marsquakes on Red Planet
NASA's InSight lander has enabled scientists to measure the biggest quakes everwitnessed on Mars. On September 18, NASA's InSight lander celebrated i...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals 'challenges' with toilet during Inspiration4 mission, promises upgrades in future
Elon Musk revealed that there were 'challenges' with the toilet during Inspiration4 mission. The SpaceX CEO p...
Rounak Jain
NASA is building an electric spacecraft to reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
NASA has scheduled the Psyche mission for August 2022. The asteroid Psyche is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter...
Kate Duffy
SpaceX's all-civilian crew chatted with Elon Musk and shared photos of Earth from the spaceship's glass-dome bathroom on their first full day in space
Elon Musk tweeted that he had spoken with Inspiration4 crew members, who flew to space on Wednesday. "All is well," he said.
Vaamanaa Sethi
ISRO’s Aditya-L1 — All that we know about India's first solar mission
ISRO’s Aditya-L1 — All that we know about India's first solar mission...
Kate Duffy
SpaceX's first all-civilian crew say they're taking a ukulele, poetry, and a copy of TIME magazine to space
SpaceX's all-civilian Inspiration4 crew is set to take various items into space and then auction them off to raise money for a children's hospital.
Gaganyaan mission likely to be launched by 2022 end or early 2023, says Union Minister
India's 'Gaganyaan' mission is likely to be launched by the end of 2022 or early 2023, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on...
NASA Perseverance's rock sample to give insight into Mars' history
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, giving scientists insight into Mars' history.
Shadab Rabbani
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX’s all-civilian spaceship to launch next week -- All you need to know about Inspiration4
Elon Musk's SpaceX to use robot chopsticks to catch 'largest-ever flying object'
Tech billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter on Monday to announce that his aerospace manufacturing firm SpaceX will try to ca...
Kevin Shalvey
Blue Origin's lawsuit against the US government is being delayed for a week, partly because the DOJ had trouble converting documents into PDFs
Uploading large batches "brings additional opportunity for the system to crash," DOJ lawyers said in response to data related to Blue Origin's suit.
