Memory foam, air purifiers, scratch-resistant lenses: these are just a few of the everyday items originally developed for space missions. Aerospace engineer Eric Hinterman invites us...
An orbital flight this year, a new rocket built every month and Starship refilling mid-orbit — Elon Musk has updated the world on how SpaceX will...
In July of 2020, three countries launched missions to Mars to study its geology and atmosphere and find any evidence of life. NASA’s Perseverance rover and...
It’s not easy designing a new helicopter, especially if that new helicopter has to survive a ride on a rocket into space. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is...
First it was the Ingenuity helicopter taking flight, now NASA has created the first oxygen on Mars, generating enough to sustain a Martian astronaut for 10...
Humans just made history: flying an autonomous helicopter on another planet, more than 100 million miles away.
NASA isn’t sure what to do with corpses in space, but they may need to figure it out soon. Of the more than 550 people we’ve...
Six separate cameras capturing full-color video and a microphone recording the sounds of Mars — this is how the Perseverance landing went down.
Feb.18 — NASA successfully landed its largest and most sophisticated science rover on Mars, as the spacecraft Perseverance touched down in an ancient river delta that...
See the activity at NASA’s JPL mission control, as Perseverance lands on the red planet.