With NASA gearing up to send humans back to the moon in the next few years with the Artemis missions with the goal of establishing a permanent outpost at the lunar south pole, nations are making efforts to contribute to Artemis ...
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2023
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(Phys.org) -- This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-based telescopes. This multi-spectral view shows that both young ...
Astronomy
May 25, 2012
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Photographer Michael Soluri was granted unprecedented access to document the people and events behind the final Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, STS-125, which launched in 2009. He has published these images in ...
Space Exploration
Apr 2, 2015
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The chances of rescuing a Russian probe that is stuck in an Earth orbit after failing to set out on its planned mission for Mars are very small, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2011
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Someday, in the not-too-distant future, humans may send robotic probes to explore nearby star systems. These robot explorers will likely take the form of lightsails and wafercraft (a la Breakthrough Starshot) that will rely ...
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2023
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Three weeks from Sunday night, an amiable, whip-smart engineer named Ray Baker will be staring into his computer screen at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hopeful and helpless - or, as he puts it, "sweating blood."
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2012
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We have a lot to live for. Families. Hobbies. Careers. It's no wonder that we are always on a quest to understand and improve our health. And this quest doesn't stop on Earth—it's one of the main focal points for International ...
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2013
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On the less glamorous side of space exploration, there's the more practical problem of waste—in particular, what to do with astronaut pee. But rather than ejecting it into space, scientists are developing a new technique ...
Materials Science
Apr 9, 2014
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Satellites about the size of a loaf of bread may one day explore space, propelled across the vast expanse by an unfurled sail.
Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2014
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In the four centuries since Galileo pointed his handheld cardboard-and-glass telescope skyward and Johannes Kepler described two laws of planetary motion, humans have come to know our solar system almost as intimately as ...
Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2010
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