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December 2024
- 03 December
- Voyager 1 Successfully Resumes Communication With Earth Thanks to NASA’s Latest Rescue Efforts
November 2024
- 29 November
- Starship’s Heat Shield Has Fallen Short. Elon Musk Is Already Considering Going Back to a Scrapped Design
- 22 November
- As Energy Prices Rise in California, Utility Companies Point to Roofs and Blame Solar Panels
- Astronomers Capture a Close-Up Image of a Star Outside of Our Galaxy for the First Time in History
- 21 November
- Starship’s Sixth Flight Has Proven One Thing: Elon Musk Made the Right Decision in 2018
- 20 November
- Elon Musk Is Ready to Colonize Mars. His Chosen Form of Government: A Direct Democracy, With Some Nuances
- 18 November
- Wind Used to Be the Darling of Renewables, But There’s a New Source on the Block: Solar Has Overtaken Wind in Record Time in the U.S.
- There’s a Backup Plan to Reverse Global Warming: Launching Diamonds Into Space. But It’ll Cost More Than $200 Billion
- 17 November
- Iceland Pulls Ahead of the Crowd in the Race to Put Solar Panels in Space
- 15 November
- Everything Is Ready for Starship’s Sixth Launch: SpaceX Will Push the Spacecraft to the Limit With Multiple Re-entry Modifications
- Artemis Faces Crisis as Rumors of SLS Cancellation Swirl and NASA Remains Silent on Orion Shield Issues
- 08 November
- China’s Einstein Probe Spots Extremely Bright Blinking Object. It May Have Discovered a New Transient Event
- 06 November
- Amazon Planned to Connect Its New Data Center to a Nuclear Power Plant. Regulators Had Other Plans
October 2024
- 31 October
- The Perseverance Rover Is Emerging From the Martian Crater Where It Landed for the First Time. The Views Are Breathtaking
- 29 October
- After the Starliner Fiasco, Boeing Reportedly Looks to Sell Off Parts of Its Struggling Space Division
- A Meteorite That Boiled the Oceans About 3 Billion Years Ago Was a 'Fertilizer Bomb' for Early Life, Study Finds
- 25 October
- The Pentagon Has Its Eyes on a Company That Wants to Install Thousands of Solar Panels in a Place With Constant Sunlight: Space
- 22 October
- Elon Musk Says the Government Asked SpaceX to ‘Kidnap’ Two Seals to See if They Would Experience Stress From Rocket Launches
- 21 October
- France Has a Striking Plan to Recycle Some of Its Nuclear Waste: Turn It Into Forks, Doorknobs, and Saucepans
- 18 October
- SpaceX Is Replacing Boeing: NASA Cancels Starliner Spacecraft Flight Contracted for 2025
- After Years of Waiting, NASA Has Finally Unveiled the Spacesuit for Its Moon Return. It Features an Unexpected Collaborator: Prada
- 16 October
- The U.S. Has Produced Its First Plutonium Pit Since 1989. The Goal: Refurbishing All Its Nuclear Warheads
- 15 October
- After 20 Years of Waiting, NASA Has Successfully Launched One of the Largest Spacecraft in History. Its Mission: Searching for Life on Europa
- 14 October
- There’s Video Proof That Starship Successfully Landed at Its Target Location Before Exploding
- 11 October
- SpaceX Leaves Rivals Speechless With the First Successful Landing of the Starship With ‘Half a Centimeter Accuracy’
- 10 October
- Scientists Thought the Milky Way Was Part of Laniakea. It Turns Out That an Even Larger Superstructure Controls Its Movements
- 09 October
- SpaceX Always Gets What It Wants: The FAA Has Moved Up Its Most Controversial Starship Launch to This Sunday
- 04 October
- Boeing’s Last Hope in Space: If the Vulcan Rocket Is Successful, It’ll Have a Chance to Compete With SpaceX
- 02 October
- A New Problem in the Falcon 9 Rocket Has Paralyzed SpaceX Launches at the Worst Possible Time
- Elon Musk Says All of the World’s Energy Will Come From Solar Panels Once People Understand the ‘Kardashev Scale’
- 01 October
- Minnesota Installed Solar Panels on Two Large Fields. Five Years Later, They’re a Haven for Bees
- Too Much of a Good Thing? The Amount of Solar Panels in Australia Almost Caused the Country's Electric Grid to Collapse
September 2024
- 30 September
- As China Makes Progress, NASA Is Facing Several Challenges in Its Efforts to Return to the Moon. Tensions Are Rising
- 28 September
- China Scientists Have Solved the Biggest Issue of Silicon Solar Panels by Creating One That’s 100% Recycled
- Oxford University Researchers Have Created an Ultra-Thin Perovskite Film That Can Turn Any Object Into a Solar Panel
- 26 September
- The Spacecraft That Will Rescue Boeing Astronauts Is Prepared for Liftoff. With It, SpaceX Will Debut a New Launch Tower
- 25 September
- China Plans to House 5,000 Scientists Worldwide to Its Upcoming Lunar Base. The First Arrivals Are Scheduled for 2035
- 23 September
- Microsoft Will Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant That Has Been Closed Since 2019 to Power Its AI
- Elon Musk’s Warning to the U.S. Government Is True: China Is Closer Than Ever to Having Its Own Starship
- 22 September
- NASA Manages to Get Voyager 1 to Switch On Its Inactive Engines for the First Time in Decades, Ensuring the Spacecraft Lives to See Another Day
- 20 September
- An Italian Winery Installed Solar Panels in Its Vineyards and Made an Unexpected Discovery: They Improve the Quality of Wine
- 19 September
- NASA Has Finally Solved the Mystery of the Spiders on Mars. It Recreated Them on Earth
- 18 September
- A Million Miles Without Refueling: Why No One Is Making Cars Out of Thorium, the World’s ‘Most Powerful Fuel’
- 17 September
- Scientists Have Been Searching for Planet Nine for Years. More Than 3,000 New Simulations Suggest That It’s Not a Planet and Never Was
- 15 September
- Bill Gates Is Building the 'Most Advanced Nuclear Facility in the World' in a Small Wyoming Town of 2,000 People
- 13 September
- A Billionaire Has Just Ventured Into Territory Previously Explored Only by NASA. It’s a Warning About What the Future of Space Exploration May Hold
- 12 September
- Polaris Dawn Is a Success: SpaceX’s First Commercial Spacewalk Is Game-Changing
- 10 September
- SpaceX Makes History Again With Polaris Dawn. It Launched Four Civilians Into the Van Allen Radiation Belt
- 09 September
- A Bittersweet Ending for Boeing’s Starliner: Its Return Flight Was Nearly Perfect, Except for a Few New Issues
- An Ode to The World’s Unluckiest Astronaut: He Trained for 14 Years to Go Into Space, Only to Be Replaced by an Actress
- 05 September
- Elon Musk’s Starship Opened an Unprecedented Hole in the Ionosphere, Russian Researchers Say
- 03 September
- NASA Has Successfully Stopped the ‘Strange Noise’ Coming From Starliner’s Loudspeaker. The Spacecraft Is Set to Return to Earth Soon
- 02 September
- Starliner Has a Plan to Return to Earth: If It Fails to Land in the Desert, Boeing Will Probably Never Fly Again
- Do Fridge Magnets Increase Energy Consumption? Here’s What Manufacturers Say
August 2024
- 31 August
- Cobalt Is Responsible for the High Cost of Batteries. Japanese Scientists Have Discovered a More Cost-Effective Alternative
- ESA and NASA Sent Two Spacecraft to the Sun. Together, They Successfully Solved a Long-Standing Puzzle: Why Solar Wind Doesn’t Cool Down
- 30 August
- SpaceX’s Riskiest Flight Is Set to Launch Soon: How to Watch the Polaris Dawn Mission Live
- 29 August
- U.S. Temporarily Halts SpaceX Flights. The Reason: A Failed Landing After 267 Successful Trips
- 27 August
- The Starliner Spacecraft Isn’t Just a Big Embarrassment: It’s Become a Huge Financial Loss for Boeing
July 2024
- 17 July
- We Have Two Hours to Protect the Electric Grid From an Extreme Solar Storm. The Recent Auroras Prove It
- 12 July
- China Is Reinforcing Its Space Station Against Potential Impacts Following the Explosion of a Russian Satellite
- 11 July
- The James Webb Space Telescope Discovers a Blue Planet With Various Problems. The Weirdest One: It Smells Like Rotten Eggs
- 10 July
- NASA Has Discovered X-Shaped Structures in the Ionosphere That Scientists Are Struggling to Explain
- 09 July
- After Invading Ukraine, Russia Threatened to Move to Its Own Space Station. It Just Approved Its Launch
- 'Everything That Could Go Wrong Went Wrong.' After Four Years, ESA’s Finally Ready to Launch the Ariane 6 Rocket
- 07 July
- The Webb Telescope Has Observed a Planet With Weather So Extreme That Clouds Are Made of Rock and Nights Reach 1112 Degrees Fahrenheit
- 04 July
- The Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Failed Before It Was Ever Turned On. ITER Will Need a Decade to Implement Changes
- 03 July
- Space Pioneer Was Once Called 'China's SpaceX.' It Just Mistakenly Launched a Rocket Near a Big City
- 02 July
- Scientists Had Theories About the Origin of the Moon. Now, Samples Taken by a Chinese Satellite Have Cast Doubt on Them
- The ‘4 Ms’: Google’s Plan for AI Companies to Consume 1,000 Times Less Power
June 2024
- 28 June
- Astronauts on the ISS Had to Take Shelter After a Huge Russian Satellite Broke Into 100 Pieces for Unknown Reasons
- NASA's Perseverance Rover Hasn’t Just Collected Rocks on Mars: Its Tubes Contain Another Valuable Sample
- 27 June
- SpaceX Is Building a Spacecraft to Destroy the International Space Station—at NASA’s Request
- 26 June
- Europe Has Installed So Many Renewable Energy Sources That It Now Faces an Unusual Problem: Electricity Is Now Too Cheap
- It's Not a Mistake: China Continues to Endanger People by Allowing Rockets to Fall From the Sky After Completing Their Missions
- 23 June
- France Connected Its First Solar Panels to the Grid in 1992. Three Decades Later, They Still Have an Astonishing Power Output
- 21 June
- Japan Is at the Forefront of Efforts to Clean Up Space Trash. It Just Deployed a 'Space Garbage Truck' Next to an Old Rocket
- For the First Time in History, Astronomers Are Seeing a Black Hole Waking Up in Real-Time
- Scientists Have Been Trying to Understand This Star for 50 Years. The Webb Telescope Figured It Out Quickly: It Wasn’t a Star
- 20 June
- NASA Continues to Deliver Bad News for Artemis, Its Mission to the Moon: Now There's a Problem With the Sun
- 19 June
- The New Energy Era Is Here: Seven Chinese Solar Companies Now Produce More Capacity Than Oil Companies
- 17 June
- NASA Will Send Two Astronauts on a Spacewalk Outside the ISS to Search for Living Organisms
- The Day Jeff Bezos Came Across the Coordinates of the Apollo 11 Rocket Crash Site Online and Went to Go Look for It
- 14 June
- A SpaceX Flight That Only Lasted for Three Days Brought Its Astronauts Back Genetically Younger
- 13 June
- The ISS Said an Astronaut Was in 'Critical Condition' on Its Radio. It Forgot to Say It Was a Drill
- Boeing Stated That Starliner Could Safely Withstand Up to Five Helium Leaks. It Just Found the Fifth One
- 12 June
- After the Latest Launch, Elon Musk Is Convinced That Starship Will Reach Mars in 3 Years. How Realistic Is It?
- The First Diamond Solar Panels Have Introduced a Material That Surpasses the Limitations of Photovoltaic Systems
- Starship Has 9 Months to Complete NASA's Lunar Contract. Against All Odds, SpaceX Believes It’s Doable
- 10 June
- Spaceflights Have Always Experienced Radio Outages During Re-entry. Starlink Has Now Made Them Obsolete
- Elon Musk Made the Right Call When He Decided to Scrap Starship's Carbon Fiber Exterior and Replace It With Steel
- 07 June
- Boeing’s Starliner Successfully Transported Astronauts to the ISS Despite Having Five of Its Thrusters Fail
- SpaceX Has Just Left Its Competition in the Dust: Starship Is One Step Away From Becoming a 100% Reusable Rocket
- 06 June
- Starship Successfully Completes Fourth Flight. SpaceX Celebrates That It Didn't Explode
- Boeing Identifies Two Leaks on the Starliner, Which Has Astronauts Onboard Headed to the Space Station
- What To Expect From Starship’s Fourth Launch: Here’s Everything SpaceX Will Test for the First Time in Today's Flight
- 05 June
- A Red Supergiant and the Solstice Moon: The Two Biggest Night Sky Events for June
- 04 June
- Two Days Before Starship’s Next Launch, Elon Musk Remains Worried: ‘We Are Not Resilient to Loss of a Single Tile’
May 2024
- 31 May
- SpaceX Has Realized That Starship Is Too Heavy to Land, So It’s Going to Try Something New in a Few Days
- 29 May
- A Historic Milestone in Power Generation: Renewables Have Reduced the Use of Fossil Fuels for the First Time
- 28 May
- NASA Had Two Major Short-Term Goals, but China Is Threatening to Beat Them Both
- For the First Time Since the 1970s, It’s Not Clear if the U.S. Can Actually Send Astronauts to the Moon
- 25 May
- A Coal Billionaire Is Building the World’s Largest Renewable Energy Farm
- 24 May
- The Electrical Grid is Suffering: Not Because of Electric Cars, but Rather Because of the Huge AI Demand
- 23 May
- SpaceX Has Just Made the First Video Call With an iPhone Connected Directly to a Starlink Satellite
- 22 May
- The North Pole Is Moving So Fast, It's Forcing Many Airports to Rename Their Runways
- NASA Has Sent a Spacecraft to Observe a Dead Robot on Mars to See How It Collects Dust
- 21 May
- Six Months Later, Voyager 1 Is Finally Sending Back Scientific Data After NASA Completes Historic Rescue
- 20 May
- Viral Video of Fiery Object Wasn't Actually a Meteorite, European Space Agency Says
- 18 May
- California Has Defeated the Sun: 20% of the Power It Uses at Night Comes From Solar Panels
- 17 May
- This American Lake Is Actually One of the Largest Batteries in the World
- 16 May
- Sunspot AR 3664 Has Grown as Large as the One That Caused the Carrington Event 165 Years Ago
- 15 May
- Elon Musk Reveals Details About Starship’s Next Flight. It’s Not Good News for Those With Little Patience
- How and When to See Comet A3 As It Passes By Earth (and Possibly Its Live Disintegration)
- 14 May
- A Family of Farmers Found Carbon Fiber Debris on Their Land. It Turned Out to Be Part of a Spacecraft
- 13 May
- Latest Images From Dark Energy Camera Show 'God’s Hand' Trying to Catch a Nearby Galaxy
- 09 May
- Japanese Researchers Have Found the Holy Grial to Produce Cheaper, More Effective Green Hydrogen
- 08 May
- There's Something Strange About China's New Moon Base Concept Video
- 07 May
- Caltech Researchers Find ‘Strongest Evidence Yet’ of an Unknown Planet in Our Solar System
- 05 May
- Californians Installed Too Many Solar Panels. It's Causing a Problem for Their Electrical Grid
- No More Gibberish: NASA Makes Progress on Fixing Its Voyager 1 Spacecraft After Months of Agony