The timeline for a Mars Sample Return mission stretches into the next decade, but this discovery makes...
Space Exploration
From Martian Canals to Exoplanet Biosignatures: The Historic Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth 
From Martian Canals to Exoplanet Biosignatures: The Historic Scientific Search for Life beyond Earth
The arc from Lowell’s imagined Martian engineers to Webb’s atmospheric spectroscopy demonstrates not only the persistence of...
The dream of spaceflight, cultivated in imagination, theory, and experiment, gave rise to the technology that made...
The great starship proposals of our age are both engineering documents and works of speculative culture. They...
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction In the vast expanse of Chinese legend, few tales capture the...
From Earth’s orbit to the farthest reaches of exploration, we’ve left behind a trail of cosmic clutter....
Heliocentrism’s triumph reshaped the epistemological foundations of knowledge itself. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction The intellectual...
As Earth’s orbit becomes increasingly congested, the time to act is now. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
In the 19th century, astronomers could see Mars through telescopes, but not clearly. By Dr. Matthew ShindellCurator,...
Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects. By Dan...
After two defeats by the Soviets, the U.S. was desperate for a win. Introduction After World War...
It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away....
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...