CADRE’s Three Adorable Rovers Are Going to the Moon
Dubbed CADRE, a trio of lunar rovers are set to demonstrate an autonomous exploration capability on the Moon. An exciting Moon mission launching in the next year will perform a…
How Long Does it Take to Get to the Moon… Mars… Jupiter? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 51
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) During the Apollo program, when NASA sent humans to the Moon, those missions took several days to reach the…
NASA Selects New Round of Student-Led Aviation Research Awards
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA / Getty Images NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges…
Rocket Lab and SpaceX perform launches minutes apart
Rocket Lab launched the first new generation imaging satellite for BlackSky Feb. 18 at almost the same time SpaceX achieved a new Falcon 9 milestone. The post Rocket Lab and…
Is Intelligent Life Inevitable?
Biologists identified a series of “hard steps” on the journey from abiogenesis – that life evolved naturally from non-living matter – to modern civilisation. These steps, such as the evolution…
Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA’s SLS moon rocket: reports
Boeing is preparing to lay off roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System rocket as it braces for the possibility that its contracts with NASA may not be…
Webb Space Telescope Tracks Fireworks Around Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy may not be as voracious as the gas-gobbling monsters that astronomers have seen farther out in the universe,…
What Would Actual Scientific Study of UAPs Look Like?
For those who missed the memo, UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) are now called UAPs (Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena). The term UFO became so closely tied to alien spacecraft and fantastical abduction…
‘Captain America: Brave New World’ introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics?
No Weapon X yet, but Captain America: Brave New World marks the arrival of adamantium to Earth-616 in a departure from its comic book origins.
Japan’s Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo)
Resilience, a lunar lander built by Japanese company ispace, zoomed within a mere 5,220 miles (8,400 kilometers) of the moon on Feb. 14.