News
-
Video: The New Horizons team hold news conference after flyby declared a success
Read more →: Video: The New Horizons team hold news conference after flyby declared a successWatch as the New Horizons team hold a press conference an hour after they received confirmation that the…
-
New Horizons team gets first fuzzy glimpse of elongated icy world on solar system’s edge
Read more →: New Horizons team gets first fuzzy glimpse of elongated icy world on solar system’s edgeThe left image shows a raw, pixel-by-pixel view of an icy object known as Ultima Thule, as captured…
-
OSIRIS-REx probe goes into close orbit around asteroid Bennu and sets a record
Read more →: OSIRIS-REx probe goes into close orbit around asteroid Bennu and sets a recordAn artist’s conception shows the OSIRIS-REx probe circling in to enter a close-in orbit around asteroid Bennu. (Univ.…
-
New Horizons team celebrates history’s farthest flyby with New Year’s sparkle
Read more →: New Horizons team celebrates history’s farthest flyby with New Year’s sparkleLAUREL, Md. — Hundreds of well-wishers took part in a different kind of New Year’s countdown, 33 minutes…
-
OSIRIS-REx completes New Year’s Eve orbit insertion burn at asteroid
Read more →: OSIRIS-REx completes New Year’s Eve orbit insertion burn at asteroidThis mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the…
-
Queen’s rock-star astrophysicist Brian May debuts his space anthem for a far-out trip
Read more →: Queen’s rock-star astrophysicist Brian May debuts his space anthem for a far-out tripBrian May, who is the lead guitarist for the rock group Queen as well as a Ph.D. astrophysicist,…
-
VIDEO: Our favorite GeekWire moments of 2018
Read more →: VIDEO: Our favorite GeekWire moments of 2018Technology Access Foundation co-founder and executive director Trish Millines Dziko accepts the Geeks Give Back award at the…
-
Watch New Horizons probe ring in the New Year with record-setting Ultima Thule flyby
Read more →: Watch New Horizons probe ring in the New Year with record-setting Ultima Thule flybyNew Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, stands alongside a scale…
-
China debuts new upper stage in final launch of the year
Read more →: China debuts new upper stage in final launch of the yearA Long March 2D rocket lifts off Saturday from the Jiuquan space base in northwestern China’s Inner Mongolia…
-
On eve of New Horizons flyby, Ultima Thule still holding onto its mysteries
Read more →: On eve of New Horizons flyby, Ultima Thule still holding onto its mysteriesThis image shows the first detection of 2014 MU69 (nicknamed “Ultima Thule”), using the highest resolution mode (known…
-
Live coverage: New Horizons flyby target comes into focus
Read more →: Live coverage: New Horizons flyby target comes into focusLive coverage of the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of 2014 MU69 — also known as Ultima Thule —…
-
Russia Launches Soyuz Rocket Carrying Commercial Payloads
Read more →: Russia Launches Soyuz Rocket Carrying Commercial PayloadsOn Dec. 27, Russia successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1a rocket at 11:07 a.m. local time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.…