After decades of dreams, a commercial spaceplane is almost ready to fly
“Plunging into the ocean is awful. Landing on a runway is really nice."
Space
Scientists will soon find out whether the Lucy mission works as intended
On Wednesday, the spacecraft will come close to the small asteroid Dinkinesh.
Daily Telescope: A spooky image of the Solar System’s largest planet
What's big and has a lot of gravity, but won't cause a cavity?
Putin wants to know why Russia can only build 40 satellites a year
"It turned out we weren't ready for this."
The Daily Telescope: A new perspective on the power behind Psyche
Launch was awesome, but now comes a painfully long wait.
Jeff Bezos shows off new Moon lander design for NASA
“We’re building our landers to enable global landing capability on the Moon, day or night."
Russia renamed its ambitious satellite program after Putin misspoke its name
"So I didn't even make it back and it's already renamed to Sfera."
Daily Telescope: Meet the Flying Bat and Squid nebulae
The Squid Nebula is a recent discovery, first spotted in 2011.
Rocket Report: China launches 3-man crew; SpaceX adds to busy manifest
ABL Space Systems has blamed its launch mount for a January rocket failure.
CEO of rocket-maker ULA makes a sales pitch—for the whole company
The company's "complicated" ownership structure is holding it back.
Daily Telescope: Snapshot of a brilliant green comet before it left forever
"My goal was to highlight the comet's journey."
Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts
"Rest assured we haven't signed any fixed-price development contracts, nor intend to."
Daily Telescope: A closer look at the most-distant object visible to the naked eye
Looking far away to understand our own home.
For the first launch of ULA’s Vulcan rocket, it’s Christmas or next year
Astrobotic's lunar lander ships to Florida later this week for final launch prep.
NASA wants the Voyagers to age gracefully, so it’s time for a software patch
Around a half-dozen full-timers and a few part-timers are keeping Voyager alive.
