Wired UKSpace This company wants to 3D print rockets on the surface of MarsWired UK - Daniel Oberhaus For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labour, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot …
Wired UK The wild science behind Starship, Elon Musk’s planet-hopping rocketWired UK - Jonathan O'Callaghan Imagine a rocket that could launch and land 1,000 times a year with the reliability of an airplane. Sound unbelievable? That’s what Elon Musk is …
Wired UKNuclear Energy Nasa's creating nuclear rockets to help put humans on MarsWired UK - Daniel Oberhaus Just north of the Tennessee River near Huntsville, Alabama, there’s a six-story rocket test stand in a small clearing of loblolly pines. It’s here, …
Wired UK China's private space industry is rapidly gaining ground on SpaceXWired UK - Abigail Beall In early August, a rocket took off on its third-ever test, reaching a height of around 300 metres and hovering there for a minute before returning to …
Wired UK Want to see the Perseid meteor shower from the UK? Good luckWired UK - Will Bedingfield In difficult political times such as these, let the starry heavens above quell the turmoil within you. The stars were there before Brexit, and they …
Wired UKMethane The wild physics of Elon Musk's methane-guzzling super-rocketWired UK - Jonathan O'Callaghan SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has his mind set on going to Mars. To do so will require a vast new spacecraft, powered by a new rocket engine unlike anything …
Wired UKMoon Landing All the coolest tech celebrating the Apollo 11 Moon landingWired UK - Mike Dent The Apollo 11 mission touched down on the Moon 50 years ago – so let’s celebrate this incredible achievement by... going shopping! Here are some of …
Wired UKMoon The BBC's Apollo 11 film retells the Moon landing in an ingenious wayWired UK - Will Bedingfield It's been 50 years since humans first landed on the Moon. Despite current plans to resend people to our nearest natural satellite, there'll still be …
Wired UKSmithsonian How Neil Armstrong's spacesuit was saved using 3D scanningWired UK - Libby Plummer On 16 July 1969, three men flew to the moon. Their spacesuits have since been kept at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, …
Wired UKSETI How an alien-hunting Russian billionaire is helping crack one of the Universe's biggest mysteriesWired UK - Katia Moskvitch In spring 2007, David Narkevic, a physics student at West Virginia University, was sifting through reams of data churned out by the Parkes telescope …
Wired UKWeb Design Take an exclusive look inside Nasa's colossal, unseen archivesWired UK - Amit Katwala As a space-mad boy in suburban England, Benedict Redgrove watched grainy television pictures of the space shuttle Columbia as it soared into Earth’s …
Wired UK Could EmDrive engines work for real? We're about to find outWired UK - Daniel Oberhaus Since the birth of the space age, the dream of catching a ride to another solar system has been hobbled by the “tyranny of the rocket equation,” …
Wired UK Elon Musk just ignited the race to build the space internetWired UK - Jonathan O'Callaghan How do you connect to the internet? You probably have a Wi-Fi network at home, or use your mobile phone network, to send and receive data from one of …
Wired UK How Nasa failed female astronauts and built space travel for menWired UK - Abigail Beall In mid-March 2019, astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were readying themselves to make space history. Later that month, the pair were …
Wired UK Women in Kyrgyzstan are fighting sexism by joining the space raceWired UK - Hannah McNeish In a small back office in a quiet suburb in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, a group of girls and young women nicknamed The Satellite Girls gather after …
Wired UK Jeff Bezos wants to colonise space, but he's paying for it by destroying EarthWired UK - Amit Katwala The world’s richest man has given up on Earth. Developed economies are scrambling to cut emissions, and globally governments are being urged to …
Wired UK Here’s how Nasa detected a marsquake for the first time everWired UK - Mika McKinnon Mars doesn’t have plate tectonics like Earth. Instead, its quakes are generated by the movement of magma deep below its surface, the slow cooling of …
Wired UK Wednesday briefing: Nasa InSight has detected its first marsquakeWired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here Nasa's InSight lander has detected the first proof that Mars, which lacks tectonic plates, is …
Wired UK Inside Mars Base One, China's latest reality TV crazeWired UK - Daphne Leprince-Ringuet With its rocky, red landscape and hazy sky that often turns grey after a sandstorm, Mars Base One could easily be mistaken for an authentic …
Wired UK Friday briefing: First private moon landing attempt ends in a crashWired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here The first privately-funded attempt to land on the Moon has ended with the Beresheet lunar …
Wired UKScott Kelly Nasa's twin study puts us a step closer to sending humans to MarsWired UK - Mika McKinnon After a year-long mission of studying a pair of identical twins, one in orbit and one on Earth, researchers have a fresh batch of questions on what …
Wired UK Here's how to watch Israel's Beresheet craft land on the MoonWired UK - Abigail Beall At 19:05 GMT (20:05 BST) today, Israel's Beresheet lander is scheduled to touch down on the Moon. The landing will be broadcast live on YouTube, with …
Wired UK The incredible story behind the first image of a black holeWired UK - Matthew R. Francis A black hole is invisible by nature. One of the strangest predictions to come out of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, a black hole …
Wired UK Wednesday briefing: Indian weapons test debris threaten the ISSWired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said that debris from an Indian anti-satellite weapons …
Wired UK This is what went down when a meteorite hit the roof of a houseWired UK - Jonathan O'Callaghan The rock fell from the sky, smashing through the roof of the house, bouncing off a couch, and destroying a bed and TV. When the residents of the …
Wired UKChina China and the US are locked in a crucial battle for space dominationWired UK - Amy Hawkins Fifty years after the first moon landing, an American triumph that gripped the world, China marked the start of 2019 with its own lunar achievement. …
Wired UK Inside the daring mission to build alien-hunting space submarinesWired UK - Leo Bear-McGuinness Casey Machado is used to searching for alien life. As a research engineer for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), she’s designed many of …
Wired UK Omega's Speedmaster Apollo 11 remake is anything but retroWired UK - Tim Barber There was never any chance that Omega was going to underplay the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, when its Speedmaster Professional …
Wired UK SpaceX just launched its first human spacecraft. Now the real fun beginsWired UK - Jonathan O'Callaghan No Americans have launched from US soil on an orbital spacecraft in eight years. But with SpaceX’s first test launch of its Crew Dragon spacecraft …
