Musk says under 5 percent of SpaceX is working on Mars mission, 2024 launch is ‘optimistic’
Elon Musk has a plan to colonize Mars, but he’s not rushing it. In a conference call followin ...
NASA’s asteroid-harvesting mission solicits proposals for its robotic spacecraft
Asteroid mining is coming soon to a planet near you: this planet, and in 2021, to be specific. But ...
NSF puts $110 million toward building out the XSEDE national computing initiative
It’s in the country’s best interest to stay at (or at least near) the forefront of adva ...
China launches the first quantum communications satellite – and what is that, exactly?
Congratulations are in order for China: by launching the world’s first quantum communications ...
NASA awards companies $65 million to develop habitats for deep space
NASA is serious about going to Mars, and not just for a quick visit, either. It just committed $65 ...
NanoRacks’ commercial space testing platform outside the ISS is now open for business
Say you’ve got an experiment or prototype satellite that you want to expose to the ravages of ...
Running at 150,000 RPM, this tiny motor could help satellites keep on course
The future is small in space: picture Cubesats the size of toasters and Femtosats an inch across cr ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover can now pick which bits of Mars to scan on its own
Curiosity may be an older dog (the rover landed on Mars in 2012), but it’s still picking up n ...
NASA shows off the design for its Mars 2020 rover
The rover NASA plans to send to Mars in 2020 is taking shape, and today its near-final design was r ...
After five years, Juno arrives in orbit around Jupiter
After traveling five years through the solar system, Juno has finally reached its destination and i ...