What do scientists hope to learn from NASA’s historic Artemis 2 moon flyby?
Here’s what’s on the experiment roster for the Artemis 2 moon mission.
Artemis 2’s (nearly) 10-day flight around the moon
The Artemis 2 mission will send humans to the vicinity of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years on a mission lasting almost 10 days. The…
Scouring TESS Data With AI Reveals A Hundred New Exoplanets
New AI tool validates over 100 new planets, finds thousands of candidates, and gives our best estimate for how likely it is to find certain planets around Sun-like stars.
Saltzman: Space ‘baked into’ modern combat operations
Space Force personnel supporting operations under U.S. Central Command are positioned in the Middle East, at headquarters in Tampa, Florida, and at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina The…
Exploding Primordial Black Holes Might Have Reshaped the Early Universe – And Created All Matter As We Know It
The early universe is absolutely so far outside our understanding of how the world works it’s hard to describe in words. Back then, the cosmos wasn’t filled with stars and…
Mercury Scout Mission Concept with Solar Sail Propulsion
The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is because as spacecraft get closer to Mercury,…
KYTHERA Mission Concept Targets 200-Day Mission to Venus Surface
The planet Venus is often called “Earth’s twin” due to the similar sizes, but the reality couldn’t be farther from the truth. Unlike Earth, which is hospitable to an estimated…
Virgin Galactic expects commercial suborbital flights to resume late this year
Virgin Galactic still expects to resume commercial suborbital flights by the end of the year as its first next-generation spaceplane nears completion. The post Virgin Galactic expects commercial suborbital flights…
Optical Fiber Arrays May Unlock Mysteries Of The Moon’s Deep Interior
Ordinary telecoms grade optical fiber could help planetary scientists better characterize the moon’s deep interior as well as its lava tubes, say two new journal papers.
Cast your vote for the best sci-fi spaceship and then watch debaters duke it out at Space Symposium
Voting ends April 14. Resistance is futile – you must comply. The post Cast your vote for the best sci-fi spaceship and then watch debaters duke it out at Space…