Starship Cannot Build a City on Mars Without First Collecting These Materials From Space
The ambition of establishing a lasting human presence on Mars has long been central to the visions of…
How long can the Voyager probes keep exploring interstellar space? NASA gearing up for ‘Big Bang’ maneuver to boost dwindling power levels
The pioneering Voyager probes might only have a few years left to explore interstellar space, and that’s assuming…
NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye
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Are Trump and Musk giving up on Mars? Why NASA and SpaceX may be moving on
For decades, Mars has been a centerpiece of the United States’ space exploration agenda. Barack Obama set a…
NASA tests confirm next-gen Mars rotors can safely break sound barrier
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has successfully tested new rotor blades that surpassed the sound barrier in simulated…
New measurements of Jupiter show its shape is shorter and flatter
A new study has redefined gas giant Jupiter’s dimensions. The study found that the planet is about 5…
Ringing the GONG: New Details About the Sun’s Far-side Activities
For years, when something happened on the far side of the Sun, it was invisible to us on…
After 6 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Shows What Travel Did to Its Wheels in Ways No One Expected
A newly released time-lapse video from NASA’s Curiosity rover offers a rare glimpse into what six years of…
Anthropic recruited SpaceX’s 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 to fix what Claude users kept complaining about
Anthropic and SpaceX this week entered a new partnership, giving Anthropic access to the compute capacity of the…
Northrop Grumman advances solid rocket motor technology with series of rapid propulsion tests
Northrop Grumman has completed three company-funded static tests of solid rocket motors over the past five months, demonstrating…
Catch Stunning Views of Venus and Jupiter as They Align with the Crescent Moon in Mid-May
Bossco CC license via Flick. Jupiter and Venus will appear in a line with the waning crescent Moon…
James Webb telescope shows hellish, airless exoplanet 49 light-years away
WASHINGTON, May 8 — Astronomers have gotten their clearest look yet at the surface of an exoplanet —…