space
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The ‘Oumuamua Mystery May Not Be So Mysterious After All
The first interstellar object to visit the Solar System “defied expectations” in 2017, according to a new study, and brought about lots of questions, including whether it was a comet or an asteroid (or, as some people wanted to believe, an alien spaceship). Though some studies have determined it was an asteroid, new research finds…
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How SpaceX Lowered The Costs And Barriers To Space
Earlier this month, SpaceX launched the first test of an unmanned Dragon vehicle which is designed to carry humans into low Earth orbit and to the International Space Station. Later this year, SpaceX plans to launch American astronauts from United States soil for the first time since 2011.
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Japanese Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Touches Down On Asteroid Ryugu
The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has completed one of its most exciting challenges yet: On Thursday evening, it touched down on the asteroid Ryugu, fired a tantalum bullet into the rocky surface, and ascended back into orbit around the tiny world, according to updates from the mission’s English-language Twitter account.
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What’s At The Edge Of The Universe?
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space but to the very edge of the universe, as far as it is possible to get from the fever dream of bad weather, busted trains and potentially cancerous thigh lesions that…