Interstellar Travel May Soon Be Within Reach
The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet called LHS 1140b has created a wave of…
This Is SpaceX’s Biggest Market, and It Might Surprise You (Spoiler Alert: It Has Nothing to Do With Space)
SpaceX is expected to go public in June in what will be the biggest initial public offering (IPO)…
Meet the Moon Trees: Apollo 14 astronaut carried hundreds of tree seeds around the Moon in 1971 and now they are flourishing across America |
More than five decades ago, Apollo 14 carried an unusual payload into deep space when hundreds of tree…
Will the future of work for Gen Z include space?
In some regards, young people are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to the…
Researchers Mapped 30 Million Trips to the Moon. This One’s the Cheapest
As humanity seeks to expand its presence at and around the Moon, researchers have been hard at work…
NASA’s first nuclear-powered spacecraft is heading to Mars, and its bringing helicopters
For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper,…
Astronomer Finds a Shortcut to Mars by Following an Asteroid’s Journey Through Space
A one-way trip to Mars takes somewhere between seven and 10 months, following a fairly direct route between…
World-first metajet propulsion could enable Alpha Centauri missions
Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions of dollars and hundreds…
Artemis II’s astronauts are on their way home—a six-figure salary but no overtime or hazard pay awaits them back on Earth
But as the crew—three Americans, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—heads…
UK firm hits first plasma milestone in fusion space propulsion
UK-based Pulsar Fusion has achieved its first plasma in the exhaust system of its Sunbird propulsion concept, marking…
Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole
Fifty-six years after Disney filmmakers imagined what it would be like for a spacecraft crew to journey to…
Lift the veil, abandon Soviet-era approach. Indian science community wants ISRO to up its PR game
New Delhi: A science communicator and space enthusiast on social media under the pseudonym ‘Gareeb Scientist’ sat determined behind…