With the opening of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” on Dec. 15, more than likely you’re going to see at least one ship using hyperspace drive to travel faster than the speed of light.
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{FD} Recycled SpaceX Dragon capsule makes second delivery to Space Station
A used SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station for the second time Sunday.
{FD} Dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots suggest an ancient ocean
NEW ORLEANS — The dwarf planet Ceres’ famous bright spots suggest that the gray, crater-laden world is surprisingly active, a new study reports.
{FD} Interstellar visitor stays silent: No signs of life yet on ‘Oumuamua
The first interstellar asteroid ever discovered in our solar system remains silent, at least for now.
{FD} Humanity’s expansion into deep space is inevitable, industry experts say
There will be a market for humanity’s expansion beyond Earth orbit, industry experts said — but none of them can predict what form that market will take.
{FD} Blue Origin launches 1st New Shepard spaceship test flight in over a year
Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard suborbital vehicle took to the skies today (Dec. 12) for the first time in more than a year, according to media reports and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
{FD} Trump’s Moon directive earns praise from NASA, others
President Donald Trumped signed a new space policy directive Monday (Dec. 11) ordering NASA to work toward sending humans to the moon and, eventually, Mars.
{FD} Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is more than 50 times deeper than Earth’s ocean
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is getting to the roots of Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot.
{FD} Warm and wet ancient Mars? Maybe not
Ancient Mars may not have been all that warm and wet after all.
{FD} Oldest monster black hole ever found is 800 million times bigger than the Sun
Astronomers have discovered the oldest supermassive black hole ever found — a behemoth that grew to 800 million times the mass of the sun when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age, a new study finds.
{FD} Boost for odds of life? Jupiter moon Europa may have plate tectonics
The case for plate tectonics on Jupiter’s ocean-harboring moon Europa keeps getting stronger.
{FD} Earthworms born in mock Mars soil
In what could be an important milestone for future farmers on Mars, two healthy baby worms were recently born in simulated Martian soil.
{FD} Neptune’s moon, Triton, is a homewrecker
Neptune’s original family of satellites may have been destroyed when its largest moon, Triton, entered the picture.
{FD} Voyager 1 just fired up its backup thrusters for the 1st time in 37 years
NASA’s far-flung Voyager 1 spacecraft has taken its backup thrusters out of mothballs.
{FD} Pluto, other faraway worlds may have buried oceans, shocking new study reveals
Our solar system may harbor many more potentially habitable worlds than scientists had thought.
{FD} Water on Mars? Salty Antarctic pond could reveal clues
A shallow, briny pond located in the most Mars-like region on Earth is probably being fed by groundwater seeping up , rather than moisture seeping down from the atmosphere, providing clues as to what stores of liquid water, if they exist, might look like on Mars.
{FD} ‘Equator trap’ may complicate search for alien life
Spotting signs of life in an alien planet’s atmosphere may be tougher than scientists had thought.
{FD} Mega-landslides on Mars may speed down slopes at 450 Mph
Powerful landslides may rumble down Martian slopes at up to 450 mph (725 km/h), sped along by slippery ice, a new study suggests.
{FD} Interplanetary-internet test sends Antarctic selfie to Space Station
A selfie sent from Antarctica to the International Space Station demonstrated an extra-robust communication network that promises to make an interplanetary internet more reliable.
{FD} Scorching-hot alien planet may have Earth-like atmosphere
A planet circling a star in the constellation Cancer might have an atmosphere similar to Earth’s, but with dayside temperatures hot enough to melt titanium, a new study suggests.
{FD} 72 unseen galaxies found hiding in plain sight
Astronomers have found 72 potential galaxies hiding in plain sight inside a vast patch of the sky previously observed by the Hubble Space Telescope .
{FD} Little green men? Pulsars presented a mystery 50 years ago
Fifty years ago this month, a small group of astronomers made a revolutionary cosmic discovery — explaining a phenomenon that they initially thought might come from an intelligent alien civilization.
{FD} Quirky comet has unexpected composition, NASA study shows
A strange green comet that zoomed past Earth earlier this year is unlike any other comet observed to date, according to new NASA research.
{FD} Mars has a mysterious tangled magnetic tail
Mars’ magnetic field stands apart in the solar system because it gets twisted by interactions with solar particles, a NASA spacecraft discovered.