On October 10, Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life – and there’s only one way to find out.
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Sending a nuclear fission reactor into space means lots of technical questions. One research group is coming up with models that could improve how a nuclear rocket starts up and powers down.
The mission will investigate the potential for life at the icy moon of Jupiter.
Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That’s a problem for our ideas about the universe.
In 2022, a probe was sent crashing into an asteroid as part of a “planetary defence” test. This Monday, the second part of the mission flies off to study the consequences of the impact.
The company can recover from its problems, but will need to deliver on promises to get its house in order.
The Hubble tension has been described as a “crisis” for cosmology. Can it be resolved?
This month, they spotted just the ninth asteroid to be detected before impact with Earth.
A South African team had a rare chance to capture information about Pluto’s atmosphere.
NASA’s decision to send Starliner’s crew home on a SpaceX capsule will have implications for Boeing, the agency itself and the astronauts still on the space station.
Lunar volcanism was thought to have stopped two billion years ago.
Traveling to space is riskier than many extreme sports − an increase in private missions could mean more civilians taking that risk.
While space is mostly empty, it does have some matter and particles spread throughout it.
For years, researchers have wondered what energy source allows the solar wind − a projection of charged particles from the Sun − to rush by at hundreds of miles a second.
Nasa’s decision to prioritise the safety of the astronauts, and to work with another commercial partner in finding a solution, is a triumph of wisdom and caution.
The SpaceX-backed mission has no professional astronauts aboard.
The Polaris Dawn mission will test communications, perform research and conduct a spacewalk with SpaceX extravehicular spacesuits.
The new study seems to confirm that molten magma covered the Moon’s surface shortly after its formation.
The space missions of the future will need to coordinate multiple satellites and spacecraft − and figure out how to refuel, repair and even replace them in orbit.
The manoeuvres will set up an encounter with Jupiter in 2031.
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