To create LignoSat, researchers used honoki, a type of magnolia tree native to Japan and normally used to make sword covers.
On space missions, astronauts often have to make independent decisions quickly. The wrong move at the wrong moment could have ...
Engineers will assess measurements of the demonstration plane's lift, drag, aerodynamics, and more to see if it requires any ...
Les Johnson, a leading expert on solar sails for NASA, breaks down the science, and the science fiction of solar sails in ...
The Boxwork feature was first viewed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2006, and looks like spiderwebs stretching ...
When the International Space Station (ISS) is retired at the end of the decade, a collection of commercial space outposts ...
Ollennu, designed NASA's InSight spacecraft. He gained significant attention following the successful landing of InSight in ...
Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just ...
NASA’s Artemis program, for instance, aims to return humans to the Moon and use it as a stepping stone for future missions to Mars. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s advancements in reusable rockets and ...
Expanding on the success of Ingenuity, NASA will send another first of its kind helicopter mission to explore outside Earth, ...
Space agency plans to add lunar cargo demonstration missions to the companies’ Artemis human landing system (HLS) contracts.
The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.