TheJames Webb Space Telescopehas been in space for nearly 10 months and, despite a micrometeroid issue and a glitch, the telescope's performance is surpassing expectations, mission officials said in anew updatetoday (Oct. 20). That's good news for astronomers given the impressive observations c...
News "Human Kind" by Tristan Eaton would make a great wallpaper for your iPhone. Today was supposed to be the day that NASA andElon Musk’s SpaceXsent a manned mission to the International Space Station — the first launch from American soil in nine years, and the first manned rocket la...
Today, Rubio surpassed NASA’s single spaceflight record of 355 continuous days in space made by astronaut Mark Vande Hei onMarch 30, 2022. At 11 a.m. on Tuesday,NASA TVwill broadcast a pre-recorded space-to-ground conversation Vande Hei had with Rubio on September 5 when he congratulate...
The Apollo program's budget ended up being a total of $23.6 billion in 1973 dollars, according to NASA, the equivalent of more than $136 billion today. That means each Apollo moon landing cost around $22.6 billion dollars. For Artemis, NASA's spending is projected to reach $93 billion ...
SAN DIEGO, CA-- Jun 6, 2016 - After a decade of under-the-radar research and development with private funding totaling $100 million, Dan Goldin, the world-renowned innovator who led the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) throughout its renaissance in the 1990s, today announce...
"Earendel existed so long ago that it may not have had all the same raw materials as the stars around us today," Welch explained. "Studying Earendel will be a window into an era of the universe that we are unfamiliar with, but that led to everything we do know. It’s like we’...
How to watch SpaceX’s 8th Starship flight test this week Record-breaking five rockets to launch in 24 hours today This rocket-launch photo is unlike any you’ve seen before Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket for first time...
Want more science and tech news delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter today. The LIFE habitat is made out of a woven fabric called Vectran, which engineers say is five times stronger than steel and has protective layers against space radiation. Other ...
NASA has been performing ongoing tests of its new Space Launch System, also known as the Mega Moon Rocket, which is intended to power an uncrewed trip to the moon later this year and, eventually, to carry humans back to the moon as well. The agency has encountered a variety of issues ...
The Japanese lander, a privately-funded spacecraft called the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander and launched by the company ispace, launched on Dec. 11, 2022, and was meant to land in the moon's Atlas crater on April 25. The ispace teamsaid in a news releasethat the lander's descent ...