NASA faces another shift in its leadership—and in its vision

NASA is facing increasingly sharp challenges as it pursues its goal of landing astronauts on the moon again before this ...

Jeff Bezos will head a new engineering-focused AI startup called Project Prometheus

Jeff Bezos is spearheading a new AI started called Project Prometheus, focused on his current interests in space and ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

NASA’s latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to examine Mars’ atmosphere

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...
Nextgov

Learning to fly: how Reentry simulates NASA’s most daring missions

You’ll be flipping dozens of them just to power up the guidance computer or initiate reentry procedures. In almost every game ...

Apollo's bold, unruly and controversial successor

A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat — and has experts ...
Power Technology

The new space race: the technicalities of putting nuclear power on the moon

The US wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, five years ahead of Russia and China’s plans to do the same.
Interesting Engineering

Student-built satellite with the size of a loaf of bread to study solar wind for NASA

US students have designed a CubeSat that will launch with NASA's IMAP mission to study solar wind and protect Earth's ...

Embry-Riddle students contribute to NASA's Mars mission

ESCAPADE, the Mars mission expected to launch on Nov. 9, will carry instruments designed by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students.

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.
New Atlas

Extreme battery tech powers one-of-a-kind rover across alien terrain

"GMC Hummer is a super truck, and this is a super truck for the Moon," Matt Nassoiy, program engineering manager for GM’s work on the lunar project, said in an update last week. "It has many of the ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB’s BioSCape project receives NASA award

BioSCape, a multinational research project co-led by UB that monitored Earth’s biodiversity from the air, has received a Group Achievement Award as part of the 2024-25 NASA Honor Awards. The honor is ...