Private cargo mission launches to space station
A new, private option for sending cargo to the International Space Station blasted off Wednesday morning. Read more
A new, private option for sending cargo to the International Space Station blasted off Wednesday morning. Read more
High in the Chilean Andes, a massive project to probe the nature of dark energy has begun. Read more
Leaving the Solar System is like leaving any familiar territory without maps — you have no idea what’s coming next, or even what you’ve just journeyed through. Such is the fate of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, which, at 18.7 billion kilometres from the sun, has been flirting with the edge of interstellar space for the past year. Conflicting data from its various experiments suggest that it both has and hasn’t left the Solar System. Read more
It’s the great cosmic game of “are we there yet”? Read more
The famous temple complex of Angkor Wat, which draws so many tourists to Cambodia, is but one small structure in a new view of the region. Archaeologists have unearthed more sprawling remains of the once-mighty Khmer empire, which ruled Southeast Asia between the ninth and the 15th centuries. Read more
There’s no continent like Antarctica, and there’s no science like Antarctic science. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is now trying to figure out where the field should be 20 years from now — by gathering the 100 most compelling science questions that can be answered in or from the frozen continent. Read more
BROOMFIELD, COLORADO — In a packed hotel ballroom within sight of the Rocky Mountains, entrepreneurs and researchers gathered on 3 June to discuss their sky-high dreams for commercial spaceflight. One day soon, they say, private spaceships will zip aloft on a daily or even hourly basis, for a brief taste of zero gravity in suborbital space. Tourists will line up for rides, while scientists hop on board to do planetary science, materials research, and even human physiology studies. Read more
An extraordinarily deep earthquake shook Russia’s Far East this morning. The magnitude-8.3 quake took place nearly 610 kilometres below Earth’s surface, according to preliminary estimates from the US Geological Survey. Read more
CANCUN, Mexico — By bombarding a patch of the Honduran rainforest with laser pulses, archaeologists have discovered structures that could be a part of a lost city — or two. Read more
Why plan for 10 years out when you can plan for 30? One NASA advisory group is going for the long haul: Between now and December it intends to draw up “a compelling, 30-year vision” for NASA’s astrophysics division. Read more
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