Laurel Kornfeld June 18th, 2019 Artist’s depiction of the COSMIC-2 satellite on orbit. Image Credit: NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to launch six remote-sensing micro-satellites next…
To help protect satellites in space, NASA is exposing a small spacecraft to a whole lot of space radiation. NASA's Space Environment Testbeds (SET) mission is currently scheduled to launch…
A tiny dwarf galaxy may be hosting a supermassive black hole, an unusual occurrence that could provide clues as to how galaxies were formed in the first place. Astronomers using…
The International Space Station is set to get private visitors NASA By Leah Crane The International Space Station is open for business. NASA announced on 7 June that it is…
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Near the end of a ground-shaking test firing of Northrop Grumman’s solid-propellant Castor 600 rocket motor — the first stage of a new…
Astronomers have directly imaged two exoplanets that are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star. While over a dozen exoplanets have been directly…
Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night and started to wonder what it would be like if we lived in a mind-controlled world like the realm…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKd0jJ934iI The SpaceX Dragon grappled by the Canadarm 2 before it is docked to the International Space Station This video has been created using over 2000 still images captured by…
What will it take for NASA to put humans back on the moon? Aside from a still-undetermined sum of cash, the agency will need to launch about 37 moon missions…
The National Space Society's (NSS) International Space Development Conference (ISDC) will take place next month amid a large policy shift for NASA: sending humans to the moon, and soon. Many…