Missions
Robots Might Jump Around to Explore the Moon
LEAP (Legged Exploration of the Aristarchus Plateau) is a mission concept study, funded by ESA, to explore challenging lunar terrains…
Watch a Nicely Stabilized Video of DART Flying Past Didymos and Slamming Into Dimorphos
Here’s one of the best videos we’ve seen of the last minutes of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission…
This is the Last Thing DART saw as it Smashed Into its Asteroid Target
The first-ever planetary defense technology demonstration mission successfully conducted its mission, slamming into the surface of a distant asteroid and…
Socks, The Final Frontier
What is the greatest challenge facing humans as we prepare for the first crewed missions to Mars? Solar and cosmic…
Want to Live on Mars? Here's Where the Water is
By combining data from the Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of researchers has produced a map of…
South Korea’s First Orbital Mission to the Moon is on its Way
South Korea launched its first robotic mission to the Moon last week, as a SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the…
ESA’s EnVision Mission Doesn’t Have a lot of Fuel, so it’s Going to Aerobrake in the Atmosphere of Venus
Venus has almost been “the forgotten planet,” with only one space mission going there in the past 30 years. But…
Uh Oh, NASA is Reviewing Psyche and May Terminate the Mission
NASA is reviewing its mission to visit the asteroid 16 Psyche. The Administration has convened a 15-member review board to…
A New Method for Making Graphene has an Awesome Application: A Space Elevator!
At the upcoming 2022 IAC, the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) will present a paper that shows how graphene could…
Two Spacecraft Could Work Together to Capture an Asteroid and Bring it Close to Earth for Mining
Humanity seems destined to expand into the Solar System. What exactly that looks like, and how difficult and tumultuous the…