5396 Results From "nasa"

Adidas is going to have their shoe material rocketed into space, where they're going to have their proprietary material tested aboard the ISS.
Off-World

Adidas Is Going to Space, on the ISS, Where They’ll Do Space Shoe Stuff

As crewed missions to space venture deeper and deeper, two scientists argue that space agencies ought not to ignore astronauts' human needs.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Unfortunately, Astronauts Will Need to Bone in Space

Michelle Kunimoto, an astronomy student, has discovered 17 new planets, including an Earth-like one that could host life, using data from NASA.
Science & Energy

Student Discovers 17 Planets, One of Which Could Host Life

Researchers from the University of New Mexico believe they have found the remains of Theia buried deep beneath the lunar surface in a new paper.
Science & Energy

Fragment of Planet That Hit Earth May Be Buried Inside Moon

A team of astronomers have discovered a strange star that oscillates only on one side, causing it to be distorted into a teardrop shape.
Space

Scientists Discover “Peculiar” Teardrop-Shaped Star

NASA engineers have captured the first images of the interaction between shockwaves from a pair of flying supersonic aircraft — and they are stunning.
Advanced Transport

NASA’s Stunning Image: Supersonic Shockwaves Smashing Together

Congress allocated $125 million to NASA, directing it to develop nuclear propulsion technology that would improve flight speed on missions to deep space.
NASA

NASA Just Got $125 Million to Develop Nuclear Rockets

For the first time, NASA built a complete map of the surface of a neutron star, giving astronomers a new resource as they try to understand the cosmos.
Science & Energy

Stare Into the Brutal Maw of This Barbarous Neutron Star

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley got to ride a Tesla Model X to the launch pad as part of a SpaceX pre-launch rehearsal over the weekend.
SpaceX

SpaceX Says It’ll Drive Astronauts to Launchpad in Tesla Model X

NASA is planning to send its tiny Mars Helicopter to the surface of Mars next summer. And the Helicopter just passed a couple of important milestones.
Mars

NASA Is Testing Its Tiny Mars Helicopter for July 2020 Launch

A team of astronomers determined that an exoplanet called K2-18b is capable of holding liquid water at habitable conditions.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Conclude Massive Exoplanet Could Host Life

New NASA-funded research could lead to a fully-electric jet plane powered by cyrogenically-cooled hydrogen instead of fossil fuels.
NASA

NASA Is Working on Electric Planes Powered by Cryogenic Hydrogen

A flair in outer space may be a sign of a phenomenon first proposed in 2017: two massive black holes, wrapping around each other on a collision course.
Physics

Flaring Object in Space May Be Two Supermassive Black Holes Colliding

Private space agency SpaceX and NASA chose the lucky astronauts, who will be the first to ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule into space.
NASA

NASA Chooses First Astronauts to Ride SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft

The last decade in mind-blowing space travel was the most important since the Apollo program was introduced. Here's the biggest space news of the decade.
Off-World

The Most Mind-Blowing Space Stories of the 2010s

NASA is sending Boeing's Starliner passenger spacecraft to the International Space Station early Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Boeing

This Week, Boeing Will Try to Dock Its Space Taxi With the ISS

NASA is paying a team of scientists to build an inflatable robot that can move and grasp things by selectively inflating chambers that act like muscles.
Robotics

NASA is Building Inflatable Robot Astronauts

Research teams have discovered dust grains older than our solar system in two meteorites that landed on separate parts of the Earth in 1969.
Solar Power

Materials Older Than the Solar System Found in Two Meteorites

SpaceX tested its Crew Dragon spacecraft's in-flight abort system on Sunday, blowing up a Falcon 9 rocket in the process.
SpaceX

Watch a SpaceX Rocket Explode in Mid-Flight

NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Spots “Moving Water Molecules” on the Moon
Moon

NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Spots “Moving Water Molecules” on the Moon