Spacecraft

MIT’s new spacecraft engine could send tiny satellites to Mars

MIT engineers are developing a new spacecraft propulsion system that combines the strengths of traditional chemical rockets with the efficiency…

4 days ago

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft uses Mars as a giant slingshot toward a mysterious metal world

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has successfully completed a close flyby of Mars, using the planet's gravity to gain speed and redirect…

3 weeks ago

Spacecraft captures the “magnetic avalanche” that triggers giant solar explosions

Much like a snow avalanche that starts with a small shift before cascading downhill, new observations show that solar flares…

5 months ago

Spacecraft capture the Sun building a massive superstorm

The Sun completes one full rotation about every 28 days. Because of this slow spin, observers on Earth can only…

5 months ago

This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through…

10 months ago

NASA’s IMAP Spacecraft Gears Up for Mission to Explore Solar System’s Edge

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has started to get ready for the launch. It was removed from its…

1 year ago

Scientists Chase Falling Satellite to Study Atmospheric Pollution from Spacecraft Reentries

Scientists take advantage of the spectacular airborne chase of a falling satellite to gather rare data on atmospheric pollution from burnt-up…

1 year ago

Uranus’s swaying moons will help spacecraft seek out hidden oceans

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40…

2 years ago

SpaceX Polaris Dawn Becomes First Spacecraft Mission to Let Non-Professional Crew Perform a Spacewalk

Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, and Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer, have achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first…

2 years ago

ISRO Set to Place Aditya-L1 Spacecraft in Final Destination Orbit: All You Need to Know

ISRO will perform the final manoeuvre on Saturday to inject Aditya-L1 spacecraft — the first space-based Indian observatory to study…

2 years ago