Christina Koch inspires N.C. A&T students in Greensboro
NASA astronaut Christina Koch inspires North Carolina A&T engineering students in Greensboro visit GREENSBORO, N.C. — It was…
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…
These Color Photos of Venus’s Surface Will Blow Your Mind
I spent much of my childhood living near NASA. My bedroom door was covered in space shuttle stickers,…
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…
Light-Propelled ‘Metajets’ Could Enable 20-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri, Study Suggests
Humanity’s desire to explore deep space continues to inspire new ways to reach places far from home. Using…
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…
Billionaire NASA chief who’s been to space twice says billionaire space travel critics are ‘wrong.’
The billionaire leader of NASA, who has gone to space twice, has a message for critics of billionaire…
America’s nuclear spacecraft is heading to Mars, and it’s bringing helicopters
For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never…