space exploration

This artist’s concept drawing shows how the Towed-Glider Air Launch System, or TGALS, would work. A business jet-class aircraft would tow a remotely piloted glider with a launch vehicle mounted underneath it. Once released at about 40,000 feet, the glider uses its own small rocket motor to execute a pull-up maneuver, releasing the launch vehicle for ignition at an elevated flight path angle. Credits: NASA
Technology that could bring a space launch to any airport
This artist’s concept drawing shows how the Towed-Glider Air Launch System, or TGALS, would work.
A state-of-the-art walking robot could revolutionize large construction projects in space
via NASA Researchers have designed a state-of-the-art walking robot that could revolutionize large construction projects
Growing plants in soil from the moon: A First
via University of Florida Growing plants in soil from the moon: A First Scientists have
Building blocks for Moon and Mars habitats: Cosmic concrete made from space dust and astronaut blood
via University of Manchester Building blocks for Moon and Mars habitats: Cosmic concrete made from
Suitcase-sized CubeSat is the smallest spacecraft to perform its own independent mission heading for an asteroid
via ESA Suitcase-sized CubeSat is the smallest spacecraft to perform its own independent mission heading
Reigniting the debate about the possibility of faster-than-light travel based on conventional physics
Image to show how long it would take different types of spacecraft to travel from
Could it be: The first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system?
Jack Madden/Cornell University In this artistic rendering of the Tau Boötes b system, the lines
Tests performed by astronauts on the ISS suggest that bacteria can extract useful materials from rocks on Mars and the Moon
Astronaut Luca Parmitano performs the experiment aboard the International Space Station (credit: European Space Agency)
A new invention makes it easier to find new Earths
via University of Sydney A new invention makes it easier to find new Earths Photonics
Are there planets that may be better for life than Earth?
Artist’s depiction of the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the
A fleet of tiny aircraft to explore Mars that have no moving parts and weigh as much as a fruit fly
Despite weighing about a third of a milligram, Penn Engineers are now testing their “nanocardboard
A rotating detonation engine promises to make rockets more fuel-efficient and lightweight
A Soyuz spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2017 using a conventional,
Cube-sats working together in space

NASA demonstrated the first coordinated maneuver between two CubeSats in low-Earth orbit as part of

The first successful demonstration of space flight by light using a solar sail

Years of computer simulations. Countless ground tests. They’ve all led up to now. The Planetary

How lunar soil could provide heat and energy for habitation

Building a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration