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IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 Bille is a newly realized geometric object, a monostable tetrahedron, that always settles on the same face. 🔍 Created by a professor-student team, it combines lightweight carbon fiber with tungsten to achieve unique stability. 🌕 The object could transform space exploration by enabling landers to autonomously reposition without mechanical assistance. 🤖 Beyond aerospace, Bille-inspired designs could …

“We wanted to have a fuel system that was green instead of using hypergolics, so we could land it on a runway and we could walk up to the vehicle without being in hazmat suits,” Tom Vice, then Sierra’s chief executive, told Ars in late 2023. “That was hard, I have to say.” Apparently it still is because, according to …

The James Webb Space Telescope has returned to the scene of one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images, the Ultra Deep Field, to capture galaxies throughout cosmic history. This new image was taken as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), which is intent on further probing in infrared light two patches of sky that were …

Hurricane season has a new contender, and it’s swirling above the poles. Behold, the space hurricane. Just like its terrestrial namesake, it spins in vast spirals and has a calm, eye-like center. But instead of clouds and rain, these electromagnetic tempests are made of plasma, charged particles whipped into motion by Earth’s magnetic field. Now, a new study reveals that …

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space weather encompasses any variations in the space environment between the Sun and …

This unbelievable simulation showing the speed of the International Space Station is blowing people’s minds and leaving people stunned. The International Space Station is repeatedly doing flybys where we can just about see it, but this animation imagines what it would look like to see the ISS cruising at 10,000 feet above the ground. The truly eye-watering speed of the …

New Shepard Mission NS-34 Webcast – YouTube Watch On Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will launch a crypto billionaire and five other people to the final frontier today (Aug. 3), and you can watch the action live. The mission — known as NS-34, because it will be the 34th overall flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle — is scheduled to …

The world’s first telescope, crafted in 1608 by the Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey, led to stunning technologies that would later revolutionize our understanding of the universe. While his telescope used simple lenses to magnify objects to about three times their size, later scientists built on this concept to peer into the depths of outer space. But some telescopes are …

Researchers have confirmed that massive “space hurricanes” are swirling over Earth’s polar regions, injecting vast amounts of energy into the upper atmosphere and even interfering with GPS signals. These plasma-based storms, invisible to most of the world, share striking similarities with traditional hurricanes but occur in the realm of charged particles high above our planet. How Space Hurricanes Form And …

NASA has released a compilation of nine new images created by its Chandra X-ray Observatory, with help from Hubble and JWST. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO) QUICK FACTS What it is: Nine archive images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope Where it is: Nearby pockets of star formation and distant galaxies with giant black holes When it was shared: July 23, 2025 This …