5396 Results From "nasa"

According to a recent investigation, China is constructing about 119 identical missile silos in a desert near the city of Yumen in northwest China.
Robots and Machines

China Is Building 119 Mysterious Missile Silos in the Desert

The team behind NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has transitioned to controlling the rover from their home offices amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Mars

NASA Employees Are Running the Mars Curiosity Rover From Home

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover just experienced a technical glitch losing its orientation, forcing it to stop in its tracks.
Science & Energy

Glitch Puts NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Out of Commission

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.
Science & Energy

Here’s How NASA’s New Machine Weighs Exoplanets

Kilm Shipenko, the Russian director of “The Challenge," told reporters at a news conference that he’d be willing to film a sequel on the Moon or Mars
International Space Station

Russian Director Who Filmed Movie on ISS Says He’s Doing the Moon or Mars Next

China's new space station has a powerful robot arm attached, and US military leaders are concerned it could become a weapon.
Robotics

The Head of US Space Command Fears China’s Giant Robot Arms

NASA announced today that it has awarded three contracts to develop lunar landing systems in an effort to return astronauts to the Moon as soon as 2024.
Starship

SpaceX Wins Large NASA Contract for Starship Moon Missions

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Future Society

“No Chance Is a Corporation Going Near My Brain”: Futurism Mailbag

A probe sent by the United Arab Emirates to study the Martian atmosphere has caught beautiful and fleeting auroras on camera.
Mars

Amazing New Images Show Auroras on Mars

Blue Origin has an ingenious plan to cut costs for its spaceflight program that's basically to copy whatever SpaceX does.
Off-World

Advisers Reportedly Begged Jeff Bezos Not to Copy Elon Musk So Much

SpaceX is making big moves in developing its launch site in South Texas, with plans for its expanded spaceport going public.
SpaceX

SpaceX Reveals Plans For Hugely Expanded Spaceport in Texas

China has shared the first pictures taken by its Zhurong Mars rover after touching down on the Red Planet's surface over the weekend.
Mars

Chinese Rover Sends Back First Photos From Surface of Mars

SpaceX cancelled the test launch of its SN15 Starship prototype for an undisclosed reason and will likely try again on Monday.
SpaceX

SpaceX Cancels Launch of Spaceship That Keeps Exploding

A NASA satellite found a bizarre six-star solar system where each of the stars are paired up in gravitationally-bound binary systems.
Solar Power

Astronomers Discover Solar System With Six Stars

Axiom Space, the company planning to launch the first entirely-private mission into orbit, just announced its four-person crew.
Off-World

First Entirely-Private Mission to Space Station Names Its Crew

The US Navy detonated 40,000 pounds worth of explosives right next to a a warship to make sure it can weather battle conditions.
Robots and Machines

US Navy Sets Off Giant Explosion That Registers as 3.9 Magnitude Earthquake

After revisiting 34-year-old data. NASA made a shocking discovery: Uranus is leaking its gassy atmosphere out into space.
Science & Energy

NASA Data Shows Something Leaking Out of Uranus

NASA is funding research for a conceptual telescope called a "solar gravitational lens" that could observe distant exoplanets at an astonishing resolution.
Exoplanets

NASA Telescope Idea Could Spot Vegetation on Distant Exoplanets

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit
Off-World

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit

SpaceX Crew Dragon's solar arrays that provide power to the spacecraft are "degrading a little bit better than predicted."
Crew Dragon

NASA Says The SpaceX Crew Dragon Module Parked at the ISS Is Generating Way More Power Than Expected