WASHINGTON — The Canadian military announced March 16 a major investment in both launch facilities and companies in a bid to create a sovereign space access capability. Canada’s Department of
WASHINGTON — The Canadian military announced March 16 a major investment in both launch facilities and companies in a bid to create a sovereign space access capability. Canada’s Department of
Artist’s concept of a collision of 2 exoplanets. Light from the collision in a star system called Gaia20ehk could be seen in the year 2021. Image via Anastasios Tzanidakis/ University
Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this
View larger. | Artist’s illustration of a new telescope conceived for seeking other Earths. It would be a hybrid: partly ground-based and partly space-based. The starshade in orbit (top center)
WASHINGTON — South Korean startup Innospace says its inaugural launch failed in December when exhaust leaked from a combustion chamber and caused the rocket to break up. Innospace announced March
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One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn’t have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There’s no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that its Hera spacecraft has successfully executed a critical deep-space maneuver, putting it on a trajectory toward the Didymos binary asteroid system. This
With the ISS set to retire in 2030, several plans are in place to replace it. These include existing space stations, proposals by rising national space agencies, and commercial space
Thermonuclear reaction rates power the models that explain how stars live, explode and create the elements. A new study co-authored by NC State faculty member Richard Longland provides a comprehensive,






