Frictions exerted during atmospheric reentry are enough to rend spacecraft into comets of glowing slag if not properly mitigated — that’s a good thing, when intentional, but otherwise nearly always very bad. The Space Shuttle, when it was still in serv…
SpaceX may send Starship on its first orbital flight in December
Starship’s first orbital test flight could finally take place next month. Mark Kirasich, a senior NASA official overseeing the development of the Artemis moon program, has revealed the information during a livestreamed NASA Advisory Council meeting. Ac…
睽違三年，Falcon Heavy 火箭終於重返發射台
Falcon Heavy 終於又再次回到了發射台上，最快今晚就會升空，載送美國太空軍的機密衛星進入地球同步軌道。
中國太空站第三模組「夢天實驗艙」發射升空，將完成天宮太空站的初步建設
繼天和核心艙與問天實驗艙之後，今日下午中國再發射了天宮太空站的第三個，也是最後一個模組「夢天實驗艙」，同樣由長征五號 B 型遙四火箭載送升空。
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the sun ‘smiling’
It’s been a busy week for NASA in the days leading up to Halloween. In the spirit of the season, the agency recently released a new image of the Eagle Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope where the Pillars of Creation look like a ghostly h…
James Webb Space Telescope captures a spooky view of the Pillars of Creation
NASA has released another image that the James Webb Space Telescope has captured of the Pillars of Creation. While the picture that the agency offered up last week provided a detailed look at stars forming in the region, the latest one is a spookier an…
SpaceX gears up for Falcon Heavy’s first flight since 2019 with a static fire test
SpaceX is on track to launch the Falcon Heavy for the first time in three years after it successfully put the heavy-lift launch vehicle through a static fire test. The private space corporation has announced the test’s successful completion on Twitter,…
NASA’s InSight lander detected a meteoroid impact on Mars
NASA’s InSight lander may have had its last hurrah. Researchers have learned that a marsquake the lander detected in Mars’ Amazonis Planitia region on December 24th, 2021 was actually a meteoroid impact — the first time any mission has witnessed a crat…
James Webb telescope captures ‘knot’ of galaxies in the early universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced its second revelatory image in as many days. Scientists using the observatory have discovered a tightly-packed “knot” of at least three galaxies that were forming around a quasar 11.5 billion years ago, just …
JWST 將鏡頭轉向了鷹星雲知名的「創生之柱」
James Webb 將鏡頭轉到了距離地球約 6,500 光年遠的巨蛇座鷹星雲中，一個名為「創生之柱」的恆星搖籃。