A Senate bill would authorize the Office of Space Commerce to take over civil space traffic management, but funding for that work has yet to be appropriated.
Black holes are powerful engines of pure gravity, capable of pulling on objects so intensely that they can’t possibly escape.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted airborne plumes of sulfur dioxide (SO2), sulfur monoxide (SO), and potassium chloride (KCl) from Io’s active volcanoes.
NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website.
After launching to the International Space Station on April 9, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner returned to Earth on Wednesday, October 21.
As soon as he saw the data, Paul Chodas knew something was strange about the near-Earth object that had been designated 2020 SO.
Digital engineering is commonplace in many industries but is unfamiliar to Pentagon procurement organizations.
If all went well, the NASA spacecraft will return the samples from Bennu to Earth in 2023
Move is part of US space agency’s plan to establish a long-term human presence on the moon by 2030
An American spacecraft is about to attempt the audacious task of grabbing rock samples from an asteroid.
