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February 2019 image of the Cygnus spacecraft leaving the ISS with UbiquitiLink's first payload.

UbiquitiLink Wants To Turn Every Cellphone Into a Satellite Phone

18 Jul

Photo of Snoopy as a semi-official NASA mascot.

How NASA Recruited Snoopy and Drafted Barbie

12 Jul

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Illustration of moon landers and rockets.

Three Steps to a Moon Base

12 Jul

On the moon, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin carries research equipment to the deployment area in the Sea of Tranquility.

Humanity’s Lunar Habitats

11 Jul

Photo rendering of space habitat on the Moon.

Project Moon Base

11 Jul

Videos

Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during the Apollo 14 transposition and docking maneuvers.

Don Eyles: Space Hacker

10 Jul 2018

glass filled furnace artistic wide view

Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope

6 Jan 2018

Photo: DARPA

Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk

29 Jul 2017

Brown cardboard box with two wheels attached sitting on rocky dirt surface

NASA Tests Origami-Inspired Robot That May One Day Explore Mars

13 May 2017

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A Gyroscope Jetpack for Astronauts

23 Nov 2015

Photo of Andy Weir

Andy Weir on The Martian, Mars, and the Movie

2 Oct 2015

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Features

Photo of the moon by Alexander Rieber/EyeEm/Getty Images.

The Great Moon Rush

11 Jul

A drone running Astrobotic’s navigation software mapped a lava tube in Iceland.

Robots Will Navigate the Moon With Maps They Make Themselves

10 Jul

Illustration of a rover laying down flexible antenna on the lunar surface.

Rovers Will Unroll a Telescope on the Moon’s Far Side

10 Jul

Illustration of a design for a possible mining operation on the moon.

Squeezing Rocket Fuel From Moon Rocks

9 Jul

Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine performing a static firing at the company’s West Texas test facility.

Blue Origin’s Next Rocket Engine Could Send the First Settlers to the Moon

9 Jul

Illustration of space vehicle orbiting the moon.

NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea

8 Jul

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Photo showing liftoff from a mobile platform in the Yellow Sea.

Blast Off! Satellite Captures Footage of Chinese Rocket Launch at Sea

3 Jul

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson Built a Moon Base in His Mind

1 Jul

An artist’s rendering shows Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s vision for an expanding lunar colony.

Engineers and Architects Are Already Designing Lunar Habitats

1 Jul

Photo-compilation of the moon and four book covers.

5 Must-Read Books About the Moon

28 Jun

Illustration of Aeolus in orbit

Backup Laser to Revive Aeolus Wind-Sensing Satellite

27 Jun

Photo of Apollo 17 astronaut, Eugene Cernan.

Moondust, Radiation, and Low Gravity: The Health Risks of Living on the Moon

27 Jun

Photo of Charles Simonyi smiling while floating in the International Space Station.

Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Charles Simonyi

26 Jun

Jupiter and satellite juno

Is the Future of Space Exploration a Flock of Robots or a Trillion People?

20 Jun

Illustration of drones connected by lines.

World's First "Quantum Drone" for Impenetrable Air-to-Ground Data Links Takes Off

18 Jun

Photograph of author Arthur Holland Michel

How the US Military’s Latest Surveillance Technology Was Inspired by Hollywood

17 Jun

Photograph showing the Archinaut entering a Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVAC).

Made In Space Blends Manufacturing and Robotics to Build on Orbit

14 Jun

GE Aviation’s first additive synchronous variable frequency generator.

GE Aviation Electrifies Airplane Engines to Meet Carbon Emission Goals

12 Jun

Relativity's Stargate printer at work at the company's California R&D lab and factory.

Startup Aims to 3D Print Cheaper, Lighter Rockets

12 Jun

Photograph of an Amazon Web Services satellite during sunset.

Is Amazon’s Satellite Ground Station Service Ready for Primetime?

5 Jun

Video still of a DJI drone sensing nearby aircraft and exhibiting a warning.

DJI Promises to Add “AirSense” to Its New Drones

22 May

Falcon9 with Starlink satellites waiting for a future launch, on May 16, 2019.

SpaceX Preps Self-Driving Starlink Satellites for Launch

22 May

Conceptual illustration of an air taxi on a landing pad.

Bosch to Sell Low-Cost Sensors for Flying Cars

21 May

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test May 1, 2019, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

US Nuclear Weapons Expert on Low-Yield Warheads, Stockpile Stewardship, and Plutonium Pit Production

20 May

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