When flying to the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) base, the impression is one of a vast wasteland below. The landscape looks featureless and bleak, but in fact holds many surprises.
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NASA's Artemis 1 mission will carry an asteroid-bound solar sail
NASA's coming megarocket launch isn't just going to the moon, it's going far beyond that — some of its secondary payloads far, far beyond.
Autel EVO Lite+ review
The powerful Autel EVO Lite+ drone offers advanced features across the board for a competitive price.
Russian cosmonauts to continue outfitting European robotic arm outside space station
Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev work outside the International Space Station on an April 18 spacewalk. Credit: NASA
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev will suit up and head outside the International Space Station Wednesday for a spacewalk to continue outfitting the European Space Agency’s robotic arm delivered to the complex last year.
NASA's Artemis 1 megarocket rolls back to launch pad for moon mission
The Artemis 1 Space Launch System is on its way to the moon following its four-mile journey to a Kennedy Space Center launch pad.
Live coverage: NASA prepares for rollout of Space Launch System moon rocket
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NASA Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann will be the First Indigenous Woman in Space!
This Fall, the fifth crewed mission (Crew-5) of the NASA Commercial Crew Program will depart for the International Space Station (ISS). This mission will see four astronauts launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Flordia aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon (atop a Falcon 9 rocket). Once they reach the ISS, they will join the crew of Expedition 67 and conduct science experiments as part of Expedition 68. The mission commander of this flight, Nicole Aunapu Mann, is a naval aviator and test pilot with a distinguished military career. She will also be the first Indigenous woman ever to go to space!
American Airlines orders 20 Boom Supersonic passenger jets
The world's largest airline has agreed to buy 20 Boom Supersonic Overture jets, expected to carry passengers at twice the speeds of conventional passenger aircraft.
NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission will carry the world's 1st deep-space biology experiment
Scientists will study the effects of radiation on yeast in preparation for long-duration crewed missions to deep space.
Asteroid Ryugu contains dust older than the solar system
Ancient grains of dust that are older than the solar system itself have been found in samples from asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft nearly two years ago.
Supermassive black hole pair nearest Earth is locked in a violent cosmic dance
A powerful and spectacular cosmic dance that began a billion years ago will lead to a collision and merger between two galaxies and the supermassive black holes at their hearts.
Meteorites that reach the Earth fall from asteroid butts
Scientists studied the trajectory and debris field of asteroid 2008 TC3 to determine which specific parts of the space rock made it down to the Earth's surface.
China's X-ray observatory detects strongest magnetic field ever recorded
A Chinese X-ray telescope has detected the strongest-ever magnetic field recorded by making observations of a rapidly-spinning neutron star, or magnetar.
'Cannibal' solar bursts may bring auroras as far south as New York
The sun has spat out two clouds of plasma in the past two days, which might trigger beautiful aurora displays observable as far south as New York later this week.
Artemis 1: The first step in returning astronauts to the moon
Artemis 1 is the first stage of the Artemis program designed to return astronauts to the moon. The uncrewed mission will travel to the moon and back.
Exclusive: Wedding bells ring in new 'Star Wars' novel, 'The Princess and the Scoundrel'
Writer Beth Revis discusses her new "Star Wars" novel, "The Princess and the Scoundrel"
Mars explorers could harvest oxygen from the atmosphere using plasma
An international team of researchers has devised a plasma-based approach to producing oxygen on Mars to support exploration.
One Exciting way to Find Planets: Detect the Signals From Their Magnetospheres
We have discovered thousands of exoplanets in recent years. Most have them have been discovered by the transit method, where an optical telescope measures the brightness of a star over time. If the star dips very slightly in brightness, it could indicate that a planet has passed in front of it, blocking some of the light. The transit method is a powerful tool, but it has limitations. Not the least of which is that the planet must pass between us and its star for us to detect it. The transit method also relies on optical telescopes. But a new method could allow astronomers to detect exoplanets using radio telescopes.
Brand New Stars in the Orion Nebula, Seen by Hubble
The Orion Nebula is a giant cloud of gas and dust that spans more than 20,000 times the size of our own solar system. It one of the closest active star-forming regions to Earth, and is therefore one of the most observed and photographed objects in the night sky. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has focused on the Orion Nebula many times, peering into giant cavities in the hazy gas, and at one point, Hubble took 520 images to create a giant mosaic of this spellbinding nebula.
This tiny moon rover has a leg up on traditional spacecraft designs
Students at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands are developing the world's smallest and lightest moon rover, called Lunar Zebro.
Black hole 'superradiance' phenomenon may aid quest for dark matter
Scientists think that when dark photons collect around black holes, they can get trapped and boosted to high energies, where they might transform into other particles (or even just normal photons).
