In March 2028, the UAE is set to launch an ambitious mission to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that will culminate with a landing attempt on a mysteriously reddish space rock.
A new genetically engineered microbe may one day help humanity settle Mars, a nonprofit biotechnology research startup suggests.
Will future astronauts take shelter in moon caves?
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently captured a stunning panorama of a Martian mountain range bathed in golden early-morning light.
As lunar traffic increases, controlled crash landings of moon orbiters and rocket stages are becoming an attractive end-of-mission disposal strategy. And that’s a problem.
A storm sent a surge of current through telegraph wires that caused a train on one of Britain’s early railway lines to be delayed by 16 minutes.
By making fuel on the Red Planet rather than bringing it from Earth, a Mars mission could save vital mass.
“Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have seen in the past.”
“Every one of these objects we study helps us understand a little more about how planets form around other stars.”
The discovery of water in dark craters at the moon’s poles has sparked a “moon rush” to establish bases there, and then villages, cities and heavy industry. How sustainable is this rush?