Tag: NASA
NASA’s Artemis II plans to send a crew around the Moon...
Margaret Landis, Arizona State University
Almost as tall as a football field, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and capsule...
Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship could transform astronomy by making space...
Martin Elvis, Smithsonian Institution
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully...
Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting...
Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College
After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or...
Coal plants emitted more pollution during the last government shutdown, while...
Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Huan Li, North Carolina A&T State University, and Neha Khanna, Binghamton University, State University of New York
NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030...
John M. Horack, The Ohio State University
For 24 hours a day, seven days a week since November 2000,...
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon –...
Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing...
Water recycling is paramount for space stations and long-duration missions −...
Berrin Tansel, Florida International University
When you’re on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food...
A decade after the release of ‘The Martian’ and a decade...
Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College
Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
