SpaceX launches a batch of 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 5, 2025. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now
SpaceX launches a batch of 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on April 5, 2025. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now
Experimental schematic of metagenomic libraries and screening. — Scientific Reports As we assess the habitability of other worlds, we are limited by being able to only study terrestrial life adapted
This article is for students grades 5-8. Aerodynamics is the way objects move through air. The rules of aerodynamics explain how an airplane is able to fly. Anything that moves through
A flag that flew to the moon, a cookie from Cookie Monster and the set list for an upcoming music tour are now all space artifacts, having briefly left the
The Russia-Ukraine war is arguably the first commercial space war on account of its use of private companies’ imagery for tracking and targeting. The conflict has demonstrated the advantage of
Our sun cycles through its pattern of energetic activity every 11 years, but the technology scientists use to observe is advancing at a faster pace. That’s one of the take-home
NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the
Target planet selection and terraformation. A. The objective function, used for determining the destination of life from a terraformed “parent” planet. Candidate destinations are first constrained by a maximum positional
TAMPA, Fla. — British in-orbit manufacturing venture Space Forge has appointed technology veteran Atul Kumar to set up a semiconductor business in the United States, aiming to bolster domestic chip
A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. Credit Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The disintegrating