Space & Physics
Betting Lots of Quatloos on the Search for Alien Civilizations (Part 1)
Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur and former physicist Yuri Milner announce a $100-million, 10-year initiative to look for signs of intelligent life in the cosmos
Aerospace142 articles archived since 1845
Space & Physics
Alien Intelligence Search Gets Major New Push
Entrepreneur and former physicist Yuri Milner talks about the just-announced $100-million Breakthrough Listen Project to search for extraterrestrial technological civilizations ...
Space & Physics
Private Space Endeavors Move Forward after String of Accidents
NASA chooses astronauts to fly on commercial missions
The Sciences
70 Years Since the First A-Bomb, Humanity Still Lives in Its Afterglow
Iran’s attempt to develop nuclear weapons will not be the last challenge faced in a journey that began with the world’s first fission bomb test during World War II
Space & Physics
Pluto Mission Finally Calls Home
At 8:52 P.M. Eastern time, July 14, 2015, an all's-well signal from the New Horizons spacecraft finished its 4.5-hour, three-billion-mile trip from near Pluto through the solar system to alert mission control on Earth that it was in working order and had succeeded in gathering data ...
Space & Physics
Pluto, Ready for Your Close-Up!
At just before 7:50 A.M. today, July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto. After a 9.5-year, three-billion-mile voyage, the ship got within about 7,750 miles from the surface...
Space & Physics
SpaceX Rocket Failure Threatens Support for Commercial Spaceflight
