50 years after Viking 1’s historic Mars landing, NASA is looking to the Red Planet’s skies
Half a century after first putting hardware down on Mars, NASA is looking to explore the Red Planet’s skies. On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 lander touched down in…
A Star Orbiting Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Tests the Limits of Relativity
A Sun-like star orbits the supermassive black hole in our Milky Way so closely that it comes within the distance of Neptune’s orbit of the Sun. It has a top…
‘Stranger Things’ at 10: The Netflix streaming icon that made it cool to like science again
In July 2016, “Stranger Things” stormed its way into the pantheon of pop culture greats. Finding the sweet spot of ’80s nostalgia, horror, and sci-fi, the Duffer Brothers’ series established…
From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This historic image — the first from the surface of Mars — confirmed that NASA’s Viking 1 lander had…
Our First View of the Surface of Mars
On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, this…
Pipelines to payloads: risk management lessons for the space economy
The energy sector has spent decades learning how to manage complex disputes that touch on sovereign power, geopolitics, regulation and private capital. Those same dynamics are at play in the…
AI rocket engine startup LegendSpace raises $29.5 million angel round
HELSINKI — A six-month-old Chinese startup aiming to use artificial intelligence to compress rocket engine development cycles has raised $29.5 million in angel funding. LegendSpace, full name Linjie Hangtian (Beijing)…
NASA’s Artemis III Lander Test Will be a “Dress Rehearsal” for Returning to the Moon!
Before Artemis astronauts land on the Moon’s surface in 2028, NASA will conduct the Artemis III demonstration mission in 2027, allowing teams on Earth and in orbit to practice rendezvous…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Uncovers Evidence of 4 Billion Year Old Impacts
Old rocks exposed on the rim of Jezero Crater preserve a roughly 4-billion-year-old cosmic “weather report” from the solar system’s most dynamic era.
‘Aliens’ at 40: James Cameron’s sequel is a sci-fi icon, but did you know he quit the movie twice?
Where does James Cameron’s “Aliens” rank among the other Alien movies? That depends on who you ask. Some might say it’s the best, while others put it just behind the…