How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers
Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit. ..
Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit. ..
The company’s uncrewed spacecraft will fly to the International Space Station, and if successful, will give NASA astronauts another way to get to orbit. ..
After the InSight lander studied the strongest marsquake ever detected, scientists gave the space robot a negative prognosis because of its dwindling solar ..
International experts are using earthly policies as models to hash out regulations for orbiting spacecraft, from preventing conflict to limiting trash. ..
A new study shows how future inhabitants of the Red Planet could run on either energy source, depending on where they set up camp. ..
This August, following tests at the launch site, the probe will voyage to the middle of the solar system to do the first detailed study of a mostly metal ..
In an influential report that comes out once a decade, researchers propose a space mission to Uranus and a lander to Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. ..
After three attempts to run through a test of the Space Launch System, engineers spotted a leak and a faulty valve. The fixes may delay the first Artemis ..
In an exclusive interview, the military branch’s second in command talks about junk in orbit, cyberattacks, satellite vulnerabilities, and Russia's war in Ukraine. ..
A pair of new reports point to a proliferating array of technologies that could be used to attack spacecraft. ..