05 December 2016
VSS Unity makes successful first glide flight test
... required for the test flights underneath WhiteKnightTwo – the companies custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft. Captive carry has the advantage of acting like a flying wind tunnel, allowing engineers to collect valuable...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... of 2017 and according to Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair of binoculars, although we can't be sure...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... sight of its lander, JUNO arrived at Jupiter and sent some images back, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft jetted off towards Bennu and Philae’s final resting place was found shortly before Rosetta ended its...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
... – a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field – or an active nucleus in the host galaxy. In this situation jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole would produce these energetic radio bursts...
