NASA begins DART mission to practice pushing away an asteroid, with an extra push from Aerojet
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA’s DART asteroid probe from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (NASA via YouTube) A space probe the size of a school…
High cost, high risk, high hopes: There’s a lot riding on the $10B James Webb Space Telescope’s launch
An Ariane 5 rocket is set to launch NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) The launch of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space…
Telescope’s launch makes Christmas merry for space fans, but the ride has just begun
An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off with the James Webb Space Telescope. (ESA / CNES / Arianespace / JM Guillon) The most expensive telescope in the known…
Year in Space: Jeff Bezos and his billionaire rivals finally usher in the age of commercial spaceflight
Jeff Bezos uncorks the bubbly after riding Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. (Blue Origin Photo) For 25 years, I’ve been recapping the top stories about space…
Amazon teams up with Lockheed Martin and Cisco to put Alexa voice assistant on NASA’s moon ship
The Callisto console will be tested in NASA’s Orion capsule. (Amazon / Lockheed Martin / Cisco Illustration) Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon? Putting Amazon’s…
Astronomers breathe a sigh of relief after Webb Telescope unfolds its mirror in space
NASA’s Bill Ochs and John Durning bump fists in celebration at the Space Telescope Science Institute after the James Webb Space Telescope’s deployment. (NASA Photo / Bill…
Webb Telescope fires thrusters to settle in at destination, a million miles from Earth
An artist’s conception shows the James Webb Space Telescope operating at L2, with the sun, Earth and moon behind its sunshield. (NASA Illustration) The $10 billion James…
NASA puts Blue Origin and Spaceflight on a new list for commercial launch contracts
An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on its launch pad. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA has chosen a dozen companies to provide commercial launch services…
A year after Blue Origin’s big setback, NASA gets set to support a second commercial moon lander
An astronaut looks at the lunar surface through the hatch of a moon lander. (NASA Illustration) NASA has laid out its plan for choosing a second commercial…
GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s Alexa is going to space, and more news from the final frontier
Alexa, open the pod bay doors. Amazon’s voice assistant hasn’t quite reached the level of HAL, the iconic AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, we learned…