Tag: space
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...
Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of...
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us...
Justin St. P. Walsh, Chapman University
The International Space Station is one of the most remarkable achievements of the...
Office of Space Commerce faces an uncertain future amid budget cuts...
Michael Liemohn, University of Michigan
When I imagine the future of space commerce, the first image that comes to...
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan and Ward B. (Chip) Manchester, University of Michigan
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool....
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,...
Scientists detected a potential biosignature on Mars – an astrobiologist explains...
Amy J. Williams, University of Florida
As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars’ Jezero Crater...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
