NASA celebrates America’s 250th birthday with incredible views of space
To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA has released four spectacular images of deep space…
Human flight was still 7 years away in 1776. Now, we’re headed back to the moon
Humanity has likely dreamed of flight since the very beginning, marveling at birds soaring overhead and trying to…
Where NASA Posts Its Best Space Photos, and How to Find Them
The recent mission to the moon by Artemis II astronauts was memorable, inspiring, and scientifically important for so…
The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there, undisturbed, for at least ten million years — there is no wind, no rain, and almost nothing to erase them
The bootprints that Apollo astronauts pressed into the lunar dust between 1969 and 1972 are still there, and…
What did the night sky look like on the 1st Independence Day 250 years ago?
What did the evening sky look like for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries on July 4,…
Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved
This week’s science news was all about goings on in space, with reports that the James Webb Space…
A Chinese Spacecraft Just Arrived At Earth’s ‘Quasi Moon’
Topline China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at one of the strangest objects in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood — a…
NASA celebrates America’s 250th birthday with incredible views of space
To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA has released four spectacular images of deep space…
In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down; four hundred years later, scientists confirmed it likely holds the largest ocean in the solar system, buried under ice and never once touched by sunlight
In January 1610, Galileo Galilei turned a small telescope toward Jupiter and noticed something that should not have…
NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year
science There might also be a downside For those growing sick of Earth’s geopolitics, NASA is looking for…
Chinese satellite manufacturer Hongqing raises $191 million
HELSINKI — Hongqing Technology, the satellite manufacturing affiliate of launch firm Landspace, has secured one of the largest…
Videos: A Lunar Mars Rover, Floating Robots, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.…