Station-ary Progress
Tiangong-1 is dead. Long live Tiangong-2. China’s first space station fell to the Earth on April 2, disintegrating over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America. Launched in 2011, contact with the...
Long Shot: Gigawatt lasers, miniature spacecraft, and a new way to fly
A countdown. Ignition. Channeled tongues of fire push the ground away. A rocket races towards space. This is humanity’s route to the stars. Or maybe not. “It’s completely different.” “It...
Strangers Passing in the Night
By the time she was noticed, she was already leaving. “She,” in this case is asteroid 1I/2017 U1, affectionately named ‘Oumuamua, which made headlines around the world last November when it was...