Aerospace

This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night side. Caption & image credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

Caltech Astronomers Build Evidence for a Ninth Planet Beyond Pluto

The Wire Staff 20/01/2016

The supposed body, temporarily dubbed Planet Nine, could exist...

A scene from 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'. Source: Lucasfilm

Why Weapons Like the Death Star Are a Waste of Time

Stuart Armstrong 22/12/2015

Instead of constructing one base made up of trillions...

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SpaceX Reuses Falcon 9 Main Stage in Long-Awaited First

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/12/2015

A quote by Musk on spacex.com states that if...

This image of Mars was taken in October 24, with MOM taking advantage of its elliptical orbit to capture the planet's breadth. Credit: ISRO

Dry Ice, Rather Than Flowing Water, Could Have Sculpted Mars’s Mysterious Gullies

Andrew Coates 21/12/2015

A new explanation involves sublimating carbon dioxide under the...

Left to right: The Velox-C1 and Kent Ridge-1 payloads on the equipment bay; integration of the first-stage segment; the C29 inside the mobile-service tower; C-29 on the first launchpad with the vehicle assembly building in the background. Credit: ISRO

ISRO to Try Launching Multiple Satellites Into Different Orbits in a Single Launch

IANS 16/12/2015

On Wednesday, ISRO's PSLV rocket will blast off from...

Jeff Bezos. Source: Blue Origins

Why Has Jeff Bezos Joined the Space Race?

Loizos Heracleous 02/12/2015

Today’s space race is less of a competition with...

A Swift Observatory image of the luminous afterglow of Gamma Ray Burst GRB 080319B in X-rays (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet (right). Caption and image credit: Wikimedia Commons

ISRO Scores Big With This ASTROSAT Instrument

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/11/2015

Soon after it came online, the Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager was...