Neil deGrasse Tyson said this somewhere in the last decade, and the line has, since, become one of those quotes that circulates in the way scientific aphorisms…
Enrico Fermi asked the question over lunch in 1950. The universe is roughly 13.8 billion years old.
Ask a planetary scientist what worries them most about sending humans to Mars and they will not hesitate.
Four astronauts walked into the United States Capitol carrying a small plush figure named Rise.
Scientists have identified the mechanism behind one of Venus's strangest weather features: a 3,700-mile-long bank of sulfuric acid clouds that whips around the planet every few days.
The colleague everyone calls when something breaks. The friend who shows up with a casserole when someone dies.
NASA says it will launch a nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft to Mars before the end of 2028, a deadline that would move space nuclear propulsion out of…
Abandoned coal mines are usually treated as a pollution problem from the past. New work suggests they may also be an overlooked carbon problem in the present.
A shoebox-sized satellite carrying gallium and tungsten crystals is now circling Earth, attempting something particle physicists have never tested in orbit before: whether a neutrino detector can work from space.
NASA confirmed on May 13 that the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 3 will fly without a functioning upper stage.
There is a story we tell ourselves about busy adult life that goes something like this.
There is a particular kind of older person who, by the standards of the wider population, has stayed unusually sharp deep into their seventies and eighties.
The Federal Communications Commission has cleared a major spectrum transfer from EchoStar to SpaceX, but the most important part of the decision may not be the airwaves themselves.
Cowboy Space Corp. has raised $275 million in Series B funding to build orbital data centers powered by sunlight and launched on a rocket the company is designing itself.
Star Catcher Industries has raised $65 million to build what it calls the first power grid in space.
In most families, there is one person who shows up. They remember the birthdays, drive to the airport at odd hours, mediate between siblings who haven't spoken in months, and quietly absorb the logistical weight that nobody else wants to carry.
