It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, when Ed Smylie realized they had
It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, when Ed Smylie realized they had
What does the future of space exploration look like? At the 2025 FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, NASA gave student robotics teams and industry leaders a first-hand look—complete with
The sixth-ever launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket is officially a failure. The two-stage, 96.7-foot-tall (29.6 meters) Alpha lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base this morning (April 29),
The next private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is just a month away. Houston-based company Axiom Space announced on Tuesday (April 29) that it’s targeting May 29
The past day has been a whirlwind for space fans. Six different rockets launched toward orbit in a dizzying stretch of 18 hours, topping by two the previous record for
Uncertain Biosignatures — Grok/Astrobiology.com We use a probability theory framework to discuss the search for biosignatures. This perspective allows us to analyse the potential for different biosignatures to provide convincing
The iconic Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 is pictured along with the smaller galaxy NGC 5195 at the top of the image. (Image credit: Dr. Michele Hernandez Bayliss) Vermont-based astrophotographer Michele
TCA cycle and the associated prebiotic network centered on pyruvate. The thin arrows denote biologically expected pathways in typical terrestrial environments for aerobic organisms, while the double arrow shows the
Space Biology Advanced Plant Habitat — NASA ROSES-24 Amendment 121: E.9 Space Biology Advanced Plant Habitat No Longer Available for Proposed ISS-Studies The research emphases of E.9 Space Biology: Research
Sketches of the two end-members of possible bulk compositions of Uranus and Neptune: a water-dominated interior (left) and a rock-dominated interior (right). The dark brown at the planetary center represents