A Nasa spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids. Seven of the mysterious space rocks are among swarms of asteroids sharing Jupiter’s orbit, thought to be the pristine leftovers of planetary formation. An Atlas V rocket blasted off before dawn on Saturday, sending Lucy […]
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How did Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin fail to dominate the billionaire space race?
The billionaire space race is only a race by name. In actuality, there is SpaceX – and everyone else. Only the company founded by Elon Musk nearly two decades ago has sent a rocket booster into orbit and landed it safely again. Only SpaceX has landed a rocket the size of a 15-storey building on […]
Read MoreChinese astronauts arrive at space station for longest mission
Three astronauts successfully docked with China’s new space station, state media said, on what is set to be Beijing’s longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to become a major space power. The three blasted off shortly after midnight on Saturday (1600 GMT) from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwestern […]
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Take Me to Space.
William Shatner tells Jeff Bezos about his spaceflight experience in a screenshot from Blue Origin’s livestream. I’ve made a decision. I’m not saving for retirement. I’m saving for a trip to space. I need to see our blue marble from above. I want to live the Star Trek dream – to go where no one […]
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4 things to know about China’s longest-ever manned spaceflight mission
China’s Shenzhou-13 spacecraft is about to begin its voyage to the Tiangong space station. The spaceflight is set to feature a range of pioneering moments and intriguing tasks. Here are four key facts about the mission. It’s China’s longest crewed mission yet The crew is heading for Tiangong, China’s first long-term space station, which is […]
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4 things to know about China’s longest-ever crewed spaceflight mission
China’s Shenzhou-13 spacecraft is about to begin its voyage to the Tiangong space station. The spaceflight is set to feature a range of pioneering moments and intriguing tasks. Here are four key facts about the mission. It’s China’s longest crewed mission yet The crew is heading for Tiangong, China’s first long-term space station, which is […]
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This Jupiter-like planet survived its dying star — and it could offer clues for our own Solar System
How will the Solar System die? It’s a hugely important question that researchers have speculated a lot about, using our knowledge of physics to create complex theoretical models. We know that the Sun will eventually become a “white dwarf”, a burnt stellar remnant whose dim light gradually fades into darkness. This transformation will involve a […]
Read MoreNasa prepares to launch Lucy mission to distant asteroids
Nasa is gearing up to launch the Lucy mission on Saturday for a voyage that could revolutionise our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. A space probe will fly atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission is heading for a population of […]
Read More‘This comforter of blue’: how Shatner’s blast into space became an ode to Earth
There’s nothing like a vacation to make you appreciate home. That seemed to be the sentiment behind William Shatner’s words as he returned from a brief journey to space on Wednesday. In remarks filmed after he landed, the actor described having had “the most profound experience I can imagine”. But his focus wasn’t on boldly […]
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William Shatner is the oldest person in space — but we shouldn’t promote space travel to the elderly
Is space really the final frontier? William Shatner has found out after boldly going where no 90-year-old has gone before. Some 55 years after Captain James T Kirk hit our screens in the original Star Trek, Shatner recently launched to the edge of space aboardBlue Origin’s New Shepard for a ten-minute sub-orbital flight. Aren’t we […]
Read MorePrince William criticises space race and tourism’s new frontier
The Duke of Cambridge has criticised the space race and space tourism, saying the world’s greatest minds need to focus on trying to fix the Earth instead. Prince William’s comments, in an interview with Newscast on BBC Sounds, will be aired the day after William Shatner made history by becoming the oldest person in space. […]
Read MoreWhat will happen after the sun dies? ‘Serendipitous’ discovery gives clues
A Jupiter-sized planet has been found orbiting a white dwarf star in the Milky Way, providing clues as to what will happen in our solar system when the sun eventually dies. An international team of astronomers observed the phenomenon, which forms when a star runs out of nuclear fuel to burn, and dies. The distant […]
Read MoreWatch William Shatner Go to Space
Image: Blue Origins iimage William Shatner, the Canadian actor who played Captain James Tiberius Kirk in Star Trek, will soon go into space. You can watch it right here. Shatner is hitching a ride on a Blue Origins’ New Shepard rocket courtesy of Jeff Bezos. At 90 years old, he will be the oldest person […]
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This ultra-powerful space telescope will unveil the ‘Dark Ages’ of the universe
Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering. On Dec. 18, 2021, after years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns, the telescope is […]
Read MoreBezos’ Blue Origin is at odds with everything Star Trek represents | Akin Olla
The 90-year-old actor William Shatner, best known for his leading role as Captain James Tiberius Kirk of Star Trek: The Original Series, is headed to space, for real this time. Shatner will be launched off this Wednesday by on-again-off-again richest man in the world Jeff Bezos’s private aerospace company Blue Origin. The entire premise of […]
Read MoreGround control to Captain Kirk! William Shatner is off to the final frontier, for real
‘Risk is our business!” So declared William Shatner in the 1968 Star Trek episode Return to Tomorrow. His character, Cpt James T Kirk, in a speech worthy of his real-life inspiration President John F Kennedy, led his crew through an imaginary potted history of human space exploration: first the moon, then Mars – then on […]
Read MoreWilliam Shatner to blast off on Bezos rocket to become oldest person in space
William Shatner, the veteran actor who spent four decades playing the fearless commander of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, is set for a real-life leap into the stars early on Wednesday on the next stage of billionaire Jeff Bezos’s quest to dominate the fledgling space tourism industry. The successful completion of the 11-minute flight alongside three […]
Read MoreRocket men: how billionaires are using celebrities as PR for their space projects
As Star Trek’s iconic Captain James T Kirk, he voyaged the universe for the good of humanity. The nonagenarian actor William Shatner’s brief, real-life thrill ride off the planet today, however, is much less about advancing the species as promoting the fortunes of Blue Origin, the private space company owned by the Amazon tycoon Jeff […]
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Classical physics make time travel impossible. But what about ‘timeless’ travel?
A pair of scientists from the UK recently published a pre-print research paper discussing the theory of a universe with no beginning. Imagine it: our universe has always existed. The Big Bang either never happened or it was simply another event in the infinite history of… itself. On the surface it sounds counter-intuitive. According to […]
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Amid Fake Outrage Over Kamala Harris’ NASA Video, Never Forget Trump Hired People To Cheer For Him
NewsOne Featured Video The latest attempted right-wing smear attack of Vice President Kamala Harris has backfired in spectacular fashion after revealing itself as fake outrage over a promotional video encouraging children to get interested in the decidedly uncontroversial topic of science. Conservatives were so busy trying to discredit the vice president that they failed to […]
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Scientists Detect Radio Signals From Galaxy’s Center, Have No Clue What It Is
Artist’s conception of the radio cluster. Image: University of Sydney ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have discovered a new cluster of unknown radio waves emanating from our galaxy’s center. According to scientists, the signals don’t line up with any known space object. As detailed in a new […]
Read MoreWilliam Shatner: hardest part of space flight will be getting in and out of seat
The toughest part of going into space with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company, the Star Trek actor William Shatner said, will be getting in and out of his chair in the New Shepard spacecraft. Shatner, 90, will become the oldest person to go into space when he blasts off as part of a four-person crew […]
Read More‘I think there’s life out there’: powerful radio antenna used for first time to find exoplanets
New techniques for spotting previously hidden planets could reveal whether there is life out there – or not. Australian scientists are part of a team that has for the first time used a radio antenna to find exoplanets, which means planets beyond our solar system. Using the world’s most powerful antenna – the Low Frequency […]
Read MoreWilliam Shatner’s Blue Origin launch into space delayed due to weather
The Star Trek actor William Shatner must wait another day to boldly go into space for real, after the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company pushed this week’s launch target of its New Shepard vehicle to Wednesday. “Due to forecasted winds on Tuesday 12 October, Blue Origin’s mission operations team has made the decision […]
Read More‘Galactic Britain’: how Cornwall is winning the European space race
“When we first started, people would laugh at us,” says Melissa Thorpe as she guides a group of visitors around an exhibition in a vast hangar at Newquay airport. “But now look, we’re only a matter of months from launch.” Sweeping around a tall black curtain, she reveals a 21-metre space rocket glimmering under red […]
Read More‘Waiting for a ghost’: the search for dark matter 1km under an Australian town
Dark matter is flowing through you, right now. This mysterious, invisible stuff makes up more than 80% of the universe, an elusive web of particles that pass freely through matter. To observe it, you have to get rid of all the interference. To study the stuff of the universe, you have to block the universe […]
Read MoreUK takes on Elon Musk in the broadband space race
They are invisible to the naked eye, but can leave a streak of light across an astronomer’s telescope. Above our heads, the constellation of small satellites orbiting the Earth is expanding every month. Often no bigger than a fridge, they are part of a new space race as rivals compete to beam broadband internet to […]
Read MorePerseverance is already making history on Mars — here’s what we discovered
In the short time since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, it’s already made history. At the moment, Mars and the Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun, and the two planets cannot communicate with each other. After working nonstop for the past 216 Martian days, the science […]
Read MoreNew images from Mars will guide search for evidence of ancient life, says study
Images from Mars reveal how water helped shape the red planet’s landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life, according to a new study. In February, Nasa’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment […]
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Predicting the weather in space is hard but this new satellite could make it easier
The Australian-made space weather satellite CUAVA-1 was deployed into orbit from the International Space Station on Wednesday night. Launched to the space station in August aboard a SpaceX rocket, a major focus of this shoebox-sized CubeSat is to study what radiation from the Sun does to Earth’s atmosphere and electronic devices. Space weather such as […]
Read MoreAukus pact to deepen Australia, US collaboration on space technology
The Aukus agreement will boost collaboration between the United States and Australia in space, Australian space agency chief Enrico Palermo says. Palermo was speaking on a panel with Nasa administrator Bill Nelson which also discussed Australia’s role in the next crewed mission to the moon, known as Artemis. Palermo said that Australia signing the Artemis […]
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