Tag: Space
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Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is…
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Tuesday Telescope: A howling wolf in the night sky
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is…
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An exceedingly rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines
A little less than four years from now, a killer asteroid will narrowly fly past planet Earth. This will be a celestial event visible around the world—for a few weeks, Apophis will shine among the brightest objects in the night sky. The near miss by the large Apophis asteroid in April 2029 offers NASA a…
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Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is…
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Rocket Report: Two big Asian reuse milestones, Vandenberg becomes SpaceX west
Welcome to Edition 7.49 of the Rocket Report! You may have noticed we are a little late with the report this week, and that is due to the Juneteenth holiday celebrated in the United States on Thursday. But that hasn’t stopped a torrent of big news this week, from exploding Starships to significant reuse milestones…
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Isaacman’s bold plan for NASA: Nuclear ships, seven-crew Dragons, accelerated Artemis
Nearly two weeks have passed since Jared Isaacman received a fateful, brief phone call from two officials in President Trump’s Office of Personnel Management. In those few seconds, the trajectory of his life over the next three and a half years changed dramatically. The president, the callers said, wanted to go in a different direction…
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She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world
Bridgit Mendler was not in Hollywood anymore. Instead, she found herself in rural North Dakota, where the stars sparkled overhead rather than on the silver screen. And she was freezing. When her team tumbled out of their rental cars after midnight, temperatures had already plummeted into the 40s. Howling winds carried their breath away before…
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Ars Live recap: Where does NASA go from here?
Our discussion with Reuters’ Joey Roulette and WaPo’s Christian Davenport. Click here for transcript. Recently, during the first Ars Live event of this year, two noted space journalists joined Ars space editor Eric Berger for a discussion of NASA’s future in the age of the second Trump administration. During the hour-long discussion, Christian Davenport of…
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Second New Glenn launch slips toward fall as program leadership departs
A few weeks ago, the chief executive of Blue Origin, Dave Limp, convened an all-hands meeting for the more than 12,000 employees at the company. Among the most critical items he discussed was the launch rate for the New Glenn rocket and how the company would fall significantly short of its goal for this year.…
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A long-shot plan to mine the Moon comes a little closer to reality
Look, no one said building a large harvester to roam around the Moon and sift through hundreds of tons of regolith to retrieve small amounts of helium-3 would be easy. And that’s to say nothing of the enormous challenge of processing and then launching any of this material from the lunar surface before finally landing…