Solar sailing seems like a simple concept – instead of being pushed along by the wind, as in a typical...
Astronomy
Scientists have long suspected that Mars was once warm and wet in its ancient past. The Mars Ocean Hypothesis says...
There’s no question that light pollution is a growing problem. Thankfully many scientists and advocates are working for change. And...
What’s the current state of James Webb? What were the main technical difficulties and what does the future look like?...
Fifty years ago, NASA and the Soviet space program conducted the first sample-return missions from the Moon. This included lunar...
In a recent study published in Microbiome, a team of researchers led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted a five-year...
Getting to space has almost always been a multi-stage process. Those stages typically took the form of different stages of...
Astronomical images never cease to delight, and the European Southern Observatory’s image of the Vela nebula is no exception. In...
Distances to different orbits can be hard to understand. For example, the ISS sits around 400 kilometers from Earth, whereas...
Gravity calculations can provide plenty of insight into a variety of phenomena. Everything from Einstein rings to the rocket equation...
