Boeing lands $2B Space Force contract for military communications satellites
Boeing was tapped by the U.S. Space Force to advance another phase of a program to help extend…
The Galaxy That Cleared the Fog
How did the universe learn to let light through? For its first billion years or so, the universe…
We tend to imagine the Moon as a barren, resourceless rock, but the permanently shadowed craters near its south pole hold something future astronauts may prize more than gold: water ice, confirmed by NASA missions, that could one day be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen for rocket fuel.
The Moon is easy to misread from Earth. It looks dry, grey, and inert, a world of dust…
Two ‘super-puff’ cotton candy exoplanets are the lightest gas giants ever discovered
What is rarer than discovering a “super-puff” planet with densities much (much) lower than those of the solar…
NASA just rolled a 3,100-ton machine 4 miles to the launch pad at less than 1 mph, the heaviest self-powered vehicle on Earth, carrying a Moon rocket that weighs less than the machine hauling it
KeysQuestions4Explore4 The heaviest self-powered vehicle on Earth carried America’s first crewed Moon mission in 50 years to the…
$450M Space Shuttle Endeavour center opens in Los Angeles in November
The long-awaited $450 million Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science Center will officially open…
Starship ends delivery robot service at UW-Madison | News
MADISON, Wis. — Starship Technologies is ending delivery robot operations at UW-Madison and other college campuses in the…
NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch Sun, Earth Science Missions
NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud…
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars
offbeat Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home Yet another Martian rock formation has…
223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture
‘Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 and trace its evolutionary…
I got a sneak peek at space shuttle Endeavour’s new home in California, and it’s breathtaking (photos)
LOS ANGELES — The space shuttle Endeavour is absolutely breathtaking in its 20-story new home at the California…
Small satellite operators confront a bottleneck to space access
For years, small satellite manufacturers have built their business plans around the idea that SpaceX could launch their…