A Solar-Powered Rocket Might Be Our Ticket to Interstellar Space
If Jason Benkoski is right, the path to interstellar space begins in a shipping container tucked behind a laboratory in Maryland. The set up looks like something out…
If Jason Benkoski is right, the path to interstellar space begins in a shipping container tucked behind a laboratory in Maryland. The set up looks like something out…
WASHINGTON — A Biden administration is likely to place more emphasis on Earth sciences at NASA and slow down the agency’s plans to return humans to the… Read More
As you drive down the road leading to Jodrell Bank Observatory, a sign asks visitors to turn off their mobile phones, stating that the Lovell telescope is… Read More
The Voyager 2 spacecraft has been gone from Earth for more than 43 years, and it now lies 125 astronomical units from our planet. That is 125… Read More
New observations of the Moon reveal that lunar water may be more accessible than originally thought. The new data is particularly exciting for NASA, which hopes to… Read More
This afternoon, a NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles from Earth successfully touched the surface of an asteroid, in an attempt to grab a handful of…
After years of studying Bennu, the spacecraft will make its first attempt at a sample collection on Tuesday. Read More
When NASA returns to the Moon sometime in 2024, it wants to have an efficient and reliable way for its astronauts to communicate with one another, and it’s… Read More
NASA has built a brand new system that could make landing on Moon and Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to… Read More
Dynetics has built a full-scale mock-up of the lander it hopes will soon be carrying NASA astronauts to the moon. Read More