Space
Starlab will go up in one single trip
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong completed one of humanity’s greatest-ever accomplishments, thanks to Apollo 11, but what if they’d been less successful and ended up stranded on the Moon? The Moon landing in July 1969 remains one of the pinnacles of human exploration. Of course, it had every chance of going horribly wrong on that […]
A new NASA telescope won’t just look at stars – it’s going to film them exploding in a way we’ve never seen before. Some of those ‘cosmic fireworks’ will be older than our entire galaxy, too. Launching in 2027, NASA’s new space telescope is being built to capture the most dramatic events in the universe […]
NASA just completed a critical test on the second-stage motor that will power its Mars Sample Return rocket – a system designed to do something no NASA tech ever has: lift off from another planet. It’s a bold step toward the mission that aims to bring Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth. If […]
It’s looking for Earth-like planets
A record-breaking journey
NASA is preparing the first crew-driven lunar rover, known as an LTV, in over 50 years in advance of Artemis V. The Artemis Moon exploration program is getting close to launching a new mission to the lunar surface. Next year will see Artemis II launch a crew of four around the Moon. But NASA is […]
Some of these hearts are geometrically perfect
This mission had an unexpected outcome
Imagine these aliens thinking, “these humans do travel a lot, don’t they”
Felix Baumgartner jumped from space and broke the speed of sound
A total faux total eclipse