13 Places on the Moon for American Astronauts to Land
20 Feb 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Artemis III and subsequent Moon missions have lots of potential landing sites, NASA will have to pick the best ones possible
Someone Is Researching Spacecraft Propelled by the Momentum of Radioactive Isotope Decay
19 Feb 2024, 15:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An idea awarded by NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program with Phase 1 backing this year targets an isotope-powered spacecraft
The Martian LEGO Ideas Project Is Popping! It Got the Attention of Andy Weir and NASA
18 Feb 2024, 19:06 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / This project submitted to LEGO Ideas has the goods lovers of The Martian movie and book are sure to love, and we can make it a reality
Falling Camera to Snap First-Ever Third-Person Pic of Spacecraft Landing on an Alien World
13 Feb 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A private camera experiment will attempt to capture from a third-person view the Intuitive Machines Odysseus as it lands on the lunar surface
NASA Spacecraft to Fly With Aluminum Foil “Engines” Running on Light
13 Feb 2024, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is presently testing a solar sail piece of technology and the deployment tech that will soon fly on a test mission
The Orion Spaceship Will Be Armed With Lasers When It Goes to the Moon
9 Feb 2024, 13:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA plans to use the Artemis II mission and the Orion spaceship's trip to the Moon to test a new tech for laser communications
This Most Extreme VTOL Is Not Meant to Fly Over Earth
8 Feb 2024, 13:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is backing a project that aims to create an extreme vertical take-off and landing aircraft for the study of Mars
Nose-Up Dream Chaser Spaceplane Gets the Shakes Ahead of Historic Mission
8 Feb 2024, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA showed the media the glorious stacked Dream Chaser spaceplane, but behind close doors it subjects the ship to rough tests
NASA May Just Have Found a Much Better Way to Navigate the Moon
8 Feb 2024, 08:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA is launching the second Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission next month, and it comes with new tech for navigating the Moon
People Have Been Pretending to Live on Mars for 200+ Days Now, Proving Mark Watney Right
7 Feb 2024, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced the first simulated Mars mission in the Mars Dune Alpha habitat reached its half point, the four people-strong crew doing just fine
NASA Summons Armies of Inchworm Robots to Build Us Homes in Space
6 Feb 2024, 13:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A NASA project called Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS) relies on inchworm robots to build space structures
Up Close and Personal With Dream Chaser Tenacity, Sierra Space's Pint-Sized Spaceplane
6 Feb 2024, 03:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Inside the Armstrong Facility, DC-101 Tenacity made its triumphant debut in front of the press and media alike as it sat on a 55-foot (16.6-m) tall test stack.
Autonomous Helicopters Fly at One Another to See If They Can Dodge in Time
5 Feb 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA, DARPA and Sikosky test autonomous collision avoidance systems on two helicopters that flew on their own at the end of last year
The Most Important NASA Space Missions Launching in 2024 (And Why They Matter)
2 Feb 2024, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Artemis II Moon mission would have been the highlight of this year in space exploration. NASA postponed it, so here's what we're left with
World's Smallest Spacecraft Completes Astronaut Testing Inside an Airplane
1 Feb 2024, 11:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aerospace company Collins announced it has completed astronaut testing for its spacewalk suit, a hardware described as the world's smalles spacecraft
NASA Plans to Run the Moon and Mars on Nuclear Power
1 Feb 2024, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced the completion of the Phase 1 of the Fission Surface Power Project, nuclear reactor for the Moon and Mars coming soon
This Spacecraft Will Strip Bare the Least Understood Planet in the Solar System
31 Jan 2024, 11:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency will send its second mission to Venus in 2031, the first to look at the planet as a whole, from core to atmosphere
Humans Training in New Artemis Spacesuits Look Like Children Playing in the Sandbox
30 Jan 2024, 09:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and Axiom Space tested the Artemis III spacesuits at the Johnson Space Center, will soon move to the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
Sounds Like Star Trek: Mission to Space to Investigate Ripples in Spacetime
29 Jan 2024, 11:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European space agency announced the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission in a bid to getter a better understanding of gravitational waves
NASA Breaks the Only Helicopter It Flies on Another World, Mission Is Officially Over
26 Jan 2024, 10:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA officially called the end of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission after the aircraft damaged one of its rotors