It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away....
Space Exploration
The Tiangong space station is an important piece of China’s ambitious plans for space activity in coming...
No agency tracks lunar space junk, so two astronomers decided to do it themselves. Introduction Scientists and...
Most Americans continue to believe that the U.S. space agency NASA has a critical role to play....
The story of how the LRL came to be built has been largely relegated to footnotes in...
Drawing from colonial histories and explaining why listening for alien life can have ethical ramifications. Introduction We’re...
We have launched thousands of rockets and sent even more satellites into orbit. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Introduction...
We have produced a lot of debris that is now scattered around the Martian surface. Introduction People...
How could becoming a multiplanetary species inspire and expedite advances in human development? Introduction In 2021, a...
Space is a most inhospitable place but we can take it. NASA’s Artemis program will mark a significant...
Mars is the best target for colonization in the solar system because it has by far the...
The Artemis 1 mission will kickstart the next era of crewed space exploration. The next era of...
The Moon is rich with resources, such as ice and greater than average access to light. Introduction...
By studying the Moon, scientists can piece together Earth’s origin story. From 1969 to 1972, 12 astronauts...
There’s a lot of technological progress required before off-Earth mining operations can be considered feasible. Introduction Like...
It will accommodate just 28 people. Its smaller scale means it can open to visitors sooner rather...
Once biological neighbors are identified, our planet’s philosophies and religions will need to adapt. How will humankind...
It’s time for a hard look at the system for managing space traffic. A rocket from the...
By Mark Garcia More than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk,” are tracked as they orbit...
The maps of the Moon that were created at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have long since...
A fundamental decision that led to the successful lunar landings came largely as a result of one...
We’re not exactly sure what the universe was up to in the first few nano-moments into the...
Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realized a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two...
U.S. space exploration inspired a generation of students and innovators, but NASA’s role has diminished, and the...
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
In the space beyond Earth’s atmosphere, countries are focusing on nationalist pursuits and ignoring the consequences for...
It has been 10 years since Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the commercial space age. What hurdles must...
Is there hope humanity will once again push beyond Earth? By Ryan P. Smith Few moments in...
Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. By Mopic/shutterstock.com An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer...
It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars – spinning neutron stars that emit short,...