In a letter addressed to the next NASA administrator—who, if Trump’s nomination is confirmed, will be Shift4 CEO and SpaceX ally Jared Isaacman—Nelson highlighted the space agency’s work during his ...

For the first time ever, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that the moon has made the list of […] The post The Moon Is Endangered For The First Time Ever appeared first on Chip Chick.

The best viewing for January's planetary parade is about 90 minutes after sunset, in as dark and clear a spot as you can find. Use binoculars or a telescope for an even better look. The alignment will ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion fuel could reduce the travel time for missions to Mars from six months to just 45 days.

NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in ...

Chorus waves are mysterious, chirping signals produced by spiraling plasma inside our planet's magnetic field. But a new detection suggests scientists may understand less about them than first thought ...

Sky watchers are in for a treat this month as the stars align to give amateurs a shot to see six planets at once.

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — and ...

The simulated environment at Airbus is used to test robots destined for space missions. The Airbus Mars Yard was built in 2013 and includes a control room and an area 30 x 13m of Mars-like surface.