Should Scientists Have Research “Reserves” on the Moon?
The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary scientists…
Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the solar system after Jupiter's Ganymede – Space Daily
Saturn’s moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the…
Spin-Reversing Comet May Face Self-Destruction
Comets are known for providing breathtaking observations of their long and shiny tails when they travel too close…
Three former SpaceX engineers opened a factory in Cincinnati. Here’s what it will build.
CINCINNATI (WKRC) — A Cincinnati startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers has launched an autonomous steel fabrication…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Google discloses $94.1 billion SpaceX stake in Q2 filing
Alphabet’s Google disclosed in a quarterly filing on Thursday that it holds $94.1 billion in SpaceX stock, representing…
Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn’s moon Titan
Picture a car-sized machine sitting on an orange, frozen plain. It powers up eight rotors, rises into a…
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the plume images for camera errors
When Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in March 1979, scientists expected its moon Io to be cold, battered…
NASA’s Perseverance rover finds the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars
The surface of Mars is no place for anything fragile. Radiation pours down, and the ground’s chemistry tears…
NASA programs feel effects of workforce reductions
WASHINGTON — More than two dozen major NASA projects say they have been affected by the loss of…
Vulcan Centaur swapped out again: NASA goes with SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch of space weather mission
NASA is shaking things up for its next mission to research the sun. The six satellites of NASA’s…
Skylab cost roughly $2.2 billion, hosted nine astronauts across three missions and remained in orbit for just over six years — before breaking apart over Western Australia, where its remains became museum exhibits, Lucite-encased souvenirs and, according to local accounts, even a cattle trough.
Skylab began as one of the most ambitious machines the United States had ever placed in orbit and…