5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: NASA NASA has released a new proposal opportunity for industry to tap into agency know-how, resources, and expertise.
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Credit: NASA NASA has released a new proposal opportunity for industry to tap into agency know-how, resources, and expertise.
The U.S. Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane is poised to launch to orbit once again. The X-37B is slated to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on
In this bonus edition of Space Minds, host David Ariosto moderates the panel “Mission to Market: The Evolution of CLPS” at the AIAA Ascend conference. We explore the
NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and 300 days in space. Her last
Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet collect a spectra from a rusty rock composed mainly by mafic minerals like olivines and pyroxenes, the same that could characterize the lunar mantleLarger image —
Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can
Positions of the final literature sample of background stars with spectroscopically measured 3 µm optical depths, overlaid on a Planck 857 GHz (350 µm) image of the Milky Way. Different
The phase curve of a planet over one rotation at eight different illumination phases. The images at the right show renderings of the planet’s illuminated surface throughout the observation. Each
The Large Dirty Mars Chamber, housed at the Open University. Credit: Petr Brož Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space –