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Parker Solar Probe will soon go deeper into the sun than ever before
Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe In less than two weeks, a spacecraft will pass…
The End Is Near for NASA’s Voyager Probes
Saturn as captured by the Voyager program. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Once the Voyagers’ planetary journeys were over, it…
The moon is just the beginning for this waterless concrete
Building a home base on the moon will demand a steep supply of moon-based infrastructure: launch pads, shelter,…
Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet
Uranus is more normal than we had thought NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute Uranus’s strange magnetic field may be…
NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter, the predecessor to Chopper NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA is working on plans to send another helicopter…
An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night
US space officials do not like to talk about the perils of flying astronauts on the aging International…
Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff Around
During the Age of Sail, ships circled the globe on voyages of discovery and trade. That era ended…
The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride
A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night…
Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration
An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission SpaceX SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is a…
I took control of NASA’s Valkyrie robot and it blew my mind
NASA’s Valkyrie robot, ready to be inhabited through virtual reality James Woodford I am standing before one of…