SpaceX lofted another batch of classified U.S. spy satellites into orbit Monday night, extending a buildout of the National Reconnaissance Office’s distributed surveillance network that has now become ...
What if the part of a battery you never think about, the fluid that sits between the electrodes, could be made from the shells your last seafood dinner left behind? That is roughly what a team led by ...
Illustration of a deep-space probe among the stars. Image: Paul Seling / Pexels. In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1, more than ...
NASA’s Artemis site selection team finished the most exhaustive survey of the lunar South Pole ever attempted and came back with a list that would fit on an index card: candidate regions where the ...
Voyager 1, the first human-made object to cross into interstellar space, carries a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding music, spoken greetings, and the sounds of Earth. The popular ...
Long-exposure star trails. Reaching the speed of light is impossible for anything with mass, and the streaking-stars image of lightspeed travel remains science fiction. Image: Baris Karagoz / Pexels.
A pocket of dark blue water beneath ice on Earth. Photo by wal_ 172619 via Pexels; this is a representative image, not a photograph of a moon. Liquid water is not confined to Earth or to worlds close ...
On the outbound leg of Apollo 11 in July 1969, Buzz Aldrin closed his eyes in the darkened cabin, tried to sleep, and instead saw a faint streak of light drift across his vision. He mentioned it to ...
Of all the places people talk about settling beyond Earth, Titan is the one that makes me stop and reconsider what living somewhere else would even feel like. Saturn’s largest moon is the only other ...
Neptune photographed by Voyager 2 in 1989. This processed full-disc view shows the Great Dark Spot, bright clouds and atmospheric bands. Source. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. At Neptune’s average distance ...
In October 2002, at the World Space Congress in Houston, the Russian scientist Dimitri Malashenkov presented a paper that corrected the public account of one of the most widely recounted events of the ...
Astronauts who spend months on the International Space Station come back to Earth slightly taller than when they left. The effect is real and measured, not an illusion or an anecdote. NASA’s figure, ...
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