In his 1979 book of the same name, Tom Wolfe described astronauts as needing the “right stuff”—meaning they had to […]
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Billions of years ago, Mars was a warm home to lakes and oceans. That is, until these enormous liquid bodies on […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars. The spacecraft survived its journey through the Martian atmosphere and made a […]
NASA officials have an expression for what it’s like to land a rover on Mars: seven minutes of terror. A […]
Update 11:20 a.m. Eastern: The Hope probe is officially in orbit around Mars. Fewer than half of all the spacecraft […]
If we ever start an extraterrestrial colony on Mars, we’ll need water for a host of essential services, and most […]
SpaceX weathered through the onset of the covid-19 pandemic last year to become the first private company to launch astronauts […]
Observing space rocks from afar is all very well, but sometimes you need to get up close. The biggest questions […]
For two years now, NASA’s InSight probe has sat on the surface of Mars, attempting to dig 5 meters (16 […]
Spaceflight in 2020 did not go as planned. Like nearly everything else in the world, space activity was hit hard […]