NASA’s CADRE mission will test a small team of autonomous rovers that can function without constant communication with Earth.
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Orbital data centers, space habitats, mining the Moon – despite taking place in space, the practices many companies are imagining will still affect the Earth.
The closer you zoom in, the more fascinating it is.
Point-to-point rocket delivery could cut down on transportation times. But engineers will need to figure out how to integrate rockets into current transportation systems.
A speech-language pathologist on how complex swallowing is – and how small changes from gravity can complicate the process.
As the Moon starts getting crowded, questions of safety and responsibility are becoming hard to ignore.
A new mission to save NASA’s Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.
Proposals to put data centres in space have many hidden costs.
After decades assuming disabled people would struggle in spaceflight, researchers are finally asking what they can contribute.
A lunar base could allow for research, economic activities and lunar mining. Such an operation has potential benefits, but lots of challenges await NASA.
Venus and Earth share some atmospheric quirks – but how did Venus get so unbearably hot, while Earth is mild and temperate?
Jenni Gibbons will be lead capsule communicator for NASA’s Artemis III mission, Gordon Osinski is on the science team and Canada also contributes a robotic Lunar Utility Vehicle.
From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.
New defence spending offers little clarity on the future direction of military space.
How prepared are we for a solar storm, bad software update or cybersecurity event that could trigger widespread loss of satellite control?
There is no one way to be an astronaut; you can’t go to astronaut school.
An astronomer explains why artificial black holes are pure science fiction – at least for now.
Any talk of nuclear futures in space obliges us to learn from nuclear pasts.
A worsening leak on June 5 forced five crew members to prepare for an emergency evacuation.
This is the first evidence that the mineral garnet may have been formed within the crust of Mars itself, heralding clues to the planet’s complex history.
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