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NASA Perseverance rover is now on Mars and busily collecting samples, storing the specimens in tubes, then depositing those tubes on the surface for later pick-up. Image credit: NASA. NASA’s ...
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the ...
Quad Cities International Airport is launching a feasibility study about opening a spaceport. Image credit: Quad Cities International Airport. The Quad Cities International Airport in Moline ...
Varda Space is trying to make alternate plans following reentry issues with the FAA. Image credit: Varda Space. Hurtling around Earth at nearly 30,000 kilometers per hour, a small, trashcan-sized ...
Space mining startup AstroForge just got a little bit closer to achieving their goal of mining asteroids for precious metals, after announcing in a press release shared with SpaceRef on Wednesday ...
Illustration of Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-1 spacecraft, demonstrating a water-based propulsion system in low-Earth orbit. Image credit: NASA. NASA recently announced its latest challenge ...
Artist’s concept of huge Orbital Launch System as foreseen by SpinLaunch, site location yet to be determined. Image credit: SpinLaunch. Leave behind those rocket fuel tanks that are topped off ...
Kyrsten Sinema begins the committee hearing. Image credit: Senate Space and Science Subcommittee broadcast. On Wednesday, Space industry figures from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic ...
Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, ESA’s Biomass Earth Explorer satellite mission delivers completely new information on forest height and above-ground forest biomass from space.
NASA illustration of a future lunar outpost. Image credit: NASA. Hoping to fuse the lessons learned from the creation of the now ubiquitous ARPANET 50 years ago, the Defense Advanced Research ...
NASA illustration of a future lunar outpost. Image credit: NASA. The concept of lunar habitation holds profound implications for scientific exploration, resource utilization, and the expansion of ...
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate ...