China probe delivers its first photo of Mars

Posted on 06/02/2021 by Engadget

China’s plans for interplanetary exploration just took a big stride forward. The Guardian reports that the country’s Tianwen-1 probe has returned its first photo of Mars, capturing a black-and-white snapshot from about 1.4 million miles away. It does...

NASA abandons InSight mission to crack the surface of Mars

Posted on 15/01/2021 by Engadget

NASA has been forced to end its mission to drill down into the Martian soil after its unique geology proved too much for the InSight lander. The InSight probe was equipped with a probe -- dubbed the Mole -- which was going to drill up to 10 feet into...

Boeing agrees to pay $2.5 billion to settle criminal charge over 737 Max crashes

Posted on 08/01/2021 by Engadget

Boeing has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to avoid prosecution over the two fatal 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people. The planemaker has been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and has entered a...

Solar Orbiter probe makes its first Venus flyby

Posted on 27/12/2020 by Engadget

The ESA-NASA Solar Orbiter probe is quite busy on its way to the Sun. Space.com notes the spacecraft has completed its first flyby of Venus, collecting info about the hellish planet as it swung by around 7:39AM Eastern. There won’t be photos when tel...

China Moon probe starts return to Earth with lunar samples

Posted on 13/12/2020 by Engadget

China’s Moon-sampling probe is on its way home after more than a week. Xinhua (via Reuters) reports Chang’e-5’s orbiter-returner has started its return trip to Earth with a cargo of lunar rocks and soil. You’ll have to wait a while for the vessel to...

China’s lunar-sampling robot has landed on the Moon

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Engadget

China’s Chang’e-5 probe touched down on the surface of the Moon Tuesday just before 10:30am ET, and it’s scheduled to spend the next few days collecting rocks and dust before heading back to Earth. Chinese state news outlets didn’t air the touchdown...

Italy is launching an antitrust investigation into Amazon and Apple

Posted on 22/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Amazon and Apple are facing more antitrust accusations. This time, Italy is investigating. Authorities want to know whether the two companies agreed to prevent retailers who are not part of Apple’s official program to sell Apple products and Beats he...

NASA is fixing a Voyager 2 snag that deactivated sensors

Posted on 29/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Voyager 2 might already have crossed into interstellar space, but that isn't stopping NASA from providing some technical help. The administration is in the midst of fixing a problem with the probe that led it to shut off its science equipment. When a...

Facebook subpoena refusal forces California to make its privacy probe public

Posted on 07/11/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

For the first time, California's State Attorney General has admitted that his office has been investigating Facebook's privacy dealings over the past 18 months -- and we wouldn't even have known if the social network had just complied with his reques...

NASA’s InSight lander can finally dig a hole for its Mars heat probe

Posted on 20/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

NASA's InSight lander was supposed be digging a hole so a probe (above) could measure the heat escaping from Mars' interior, but it hasn't made much progress since work got started in February -- it hadn't even finished burying itself. At last, it's...

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