Fresh Food Delivery for Space Station
You’re allowed to play with your food when you’re on the International Space Station! NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway (bottom left), Jessica Meir (middle left), and Chris Williams (bottom…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is About To Finish A Marathon
Perseverance has travelled almost 26 miles, or 42 km. That’s just shy of a marathon, which is 26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers. Along the way, it’s abraded and studied 62…
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part IV: Arecibo and the WOW! Signal
During the 1970s, pioneering experiments were conducted that are known today as Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI). At the same time, NASA launched four spacecraft bound for interstellar space, each carrying…
SLS to launch without upper stage for Artemis 3
NASA plans to fly the Space Launch System on Artemis 3 without an upper stage as the agency begins to define revised plans for the mission.
Remember ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books? Now there’s a gorgeous graphic novel version heading to ‘Space and Beyond’ (exclusive)
The 1980’s kids classic ‘Space and Beyond’ is back as a stunning interactive comic.
Forget Searching for Individual Biosignatures. Instead, Find Their Patterns
The search for life elsewhere focuses on biosignatures. These are chemicals in atmospheres that can only be attributed to life. But despite the prowess of the JWST, finding slam-dunk proof…
Will Starship launch from foreign shores? SpaceX ‘constantly exploring’ options for megarocket liftoff sites
SpaceX just revealed that it’s on the hunt for additional launch sites for its Starship megarocket, eyeing locations both inside and beyond the United States.
NASA-Supported Space Tech Advances Earthly Construction
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Branch’s work outfitting a prototype of a lunar surface habitat they developed, pictured here, under a cooperative agreement with…
Rise Goes to Washington
NASA/Joel Kowsky “Rise,” the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency)…
What flings mysteriously powerful particles called ‘cosmic rays’ at Earth?
High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth’s strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle.