US President Donald Trump on Thursday weighed in on the prolonged stay of Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station (ISS), blaming President Joe Biden for their extended mission and claiming he has asked Elon Musk to facilitate their return.Trump, speaking from the Oval Office, said, “We have two astronauts…
Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore said Tuesday he did not think politics played any role in the crew’s extended mission, but he did not directly address earlier comments by President Trump and Elon Musk that the crew had been “abandoned” in space by the Biden administration. “Obviously, we’ve heard some of these different things that…
A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of the aircraft’s historic test flights over the Mojave Desert. The image released Monday shows the XB-1 aircraft, which Boom Supersonic said is the “first civil supersonic jet made in America,” during its second…
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander closed in on the moon Saturday, on course for a nail-biting automated descent to touchdown early Sunday, the first of three private-sector robotic moon landers to reach its target after launches earlier this year. The Blue Ghost lunar lander spent a month orbiting Earth after launch atop a Falcon 9…
I predict that Donald Trump is going to end up being very costly to Elon Musk’s tech empire. Until quite recently, investors were all in on the Trump-Musk bromance. Bloomberg calculated that the value of Musk’s companies had risen by $613 billion between early November 2024 and mid-February 2025, assuming anticipated funding rounds went as…
With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, the centerpiece of a multi-element NASA-sponsored mission to help pave the way for human expeditions. The workhorse rocket’s nine first-stage engines roared to life at 7:16 p.m. EST, pushing the booster…
Seven planets are aligning in the night sky this week, creating a brief chance to see a “planetary parade.” Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the naked eye, according to Space.com and other sites that track celestial events. For…
In an ironic twist of cosmic problem-solving, Chinese researchers have transformed a lingering Nasa headache – the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts – into a revolutionary propulsion breakthrough that could redefine modern warfare and space travel. As a result, helium, the ultralight gas used to pressurise liquid rocket fuel, has become an emblem of engineering frailty….
On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid “2024 YR4” impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the probability of Earth impact to 2.8%, adding that for an asteroid of its size, it “now holds the record for the highest…
New images captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover’s Mastcam, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover’s eyes. The clouds were spotted on Jan. 17, and the photos were taken over the course of 16 minutes, the space agency said…