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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will blast a crater into an asteroid to collect samples.Japan’s space agency said Monday that its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will follow up last month’s touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission — dropping an explosive on the asteroid to make a crater and then collect underground samples for possible…

My first thought was why, why do we need to go back? There are so many other space goals we have yet to attain. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for landing astronauts on the moon within five years, an accelerated pace that would aim to put Americans on the lunar south pole. For…

There is a new approach that could boost energy capacity of lithium batteries.The team describes their concept as a “hybrid” cathode, because it combines aspects of two different approaches that have been used before, one to increase the energy output per pound (gravimetric energy density), the other for the energy per liter (volumetric energy density)….

There is a new scam out there that aims to trick you into giving up your cell phone account information.If someone calls you pretending to be from your cell phone carrier and asks for a verification code, don’t give it to them. That was a lesson learned in Florida last month after two different scammers…

SpaceX is readying their ‘Starship Hopper’ spacecraft prototype for its first test.The prototype, a small version of the huge, 100-passenger Starship now in development, could undergo its first test soon, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on March 17. The uncrewed vehicle, called Starship Hopper, is expected to take brief “hops” during the test, lifting off…