The Artemis 1 mission will kickstart the next era of crewed space exploration. The next era of...
Space Exploration
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...
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,...
A new approach to dating the birth of our solar system could help find other similar systems. Flickr/Dmitry...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
By Dr. Martin Rees / 03.14.2018 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics University of Cambridge Soon after...
NASA By Paul Gilster / 04.08.2016 The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless,...
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ. / Photo by...
Huge ice sheets discovered on Mars could mean human exploration of the planet is closer than scientists...
Image from NASA By Azriel ReShel / 11.09.2017 All photos credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Witness the Beauty of...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
An illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Dr. Tanya Hill /...
Footage from the Apollo 11 moonwalk that was partially restored in 2009. / NASA 07.20.2017 July 1969....
The James Webb Space Telescope is pushed into the clean room of Building 32. Building 32 houses...
Saturn and its rings backlit by the sun, which is blocked by the planet in this view....