Paintballs Win Move an Asteroid Competition
While there have been many proposals for preventing asteroid collisions with Earth, ranging from nuclear detonations to gravity tractors, paintballs... Read more →
Federal Aviation Administration Grants Help Burgeoning Spaceports
New Mexico has the only official Spaceport America, host of Virgin Galactic's suborbital hub, but other states are clamboring for their own... Read more →
Orbiting Breeze-M Explosion Poses Serious Collision Threat
The explosion of the Proton Breeze-M rocket body increased the number of space debris objects in low Earth orbit (Credits: NASA Earth... Read more →
South Korea’s First Rocket Launch Postponed Following Fuel Leak
KSLV-1 on the way to the launch pad at the Naro Space Center (Credits: AFP/ STR / Korea Pool). On October 26, South Korea made its third attempt... Read more →
Dragon Splashes Down, Mission Complete
Dragon sails home after splashing down in the Pacific on October 28 (Credits: SpaceX). After three weeks spent docked to the International Space... Read more →
Seismic Shock for Scientists
The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake may have tumbled buildings, but some are wondering whether the criminal conviction of seismologists who failed to... Read more →