Space Exploration Technologies
Watch Three Humans Take A Flawless Ride To Space Yesterday
And now we have six people in space again -- including the first-ever Italian woman to reach orbit. Samantha Cristoforetti…
NASA Aims To Slash Space Shipping Costs With Shiny 3-D Printer
Need a part on the International Space Station? You're going to have to wait for that. That is, wait for…
With Philae Delivered, Rosetta Will Play ‘Comet Escort’ Through 2015
With the Philae mission down on the comet and preliminary science results coming from its brief science surge on the…
First Orion Flight Will Assess Radiation Risk As NASA Thinks About Human Mars Missions
If you wanna get humans to Mars, there are so many technical hurdles in the way that it will take…
Lunar Mission One Wants To Crowdfund A Robotic Moon Lander
Just hours after announcing that it plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in the next decade, the…
No ‘Rubber Duckie’! Rosetta’s Comet Looks Weird In Decade-Old Hubble Model
Okay, let's take a deep breath about Rosetta and remember just how far we've come since the mission arrived at…
OSIRIS-REx: The Audacious Plan To Scoop An Asteroid And Fly Back To Earth
We've been super-excited about the Philae landing recently, the first soft landing on a comet. But imagine if the spacecraft…
Smart Robots Could Build ‘Snow Forts’ On The Moon One Day
The Moon is so close to us, and yet so far. Just last year the Chang'e-3 spacecraft and Yutu rover…
Philae’s Incredible Comet-Landing Sequence Shows Up In Fresh Rosetta Images
Wow! New images released from the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko show the spacecraft coming in for its (first) landing…
Infographic: The Rosetta Comet-Probing Mission Cost As Much As Four Jetliners
What price do you put on scientific discovery? From the way Twitter lit up last week when the Philae spacecraft…