A new award from NASA will support ICON in developing construction technology that could be used on the Moon and Mars. Image Courtesy of ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group From inflatable and 3D-printed structures to entire habitats, architecture plays an unprecedented role in space exploration missions....
Structures in the solar corona are visible in polarized light, such as the dark prominence that can be seen on the bottom right of the Sun captured during the eclipse from Tetonia, Idaho. Credit: David Elmore and Richard Kautz On December 11, 2017, six researchers discussed initial findings b...
But there’s another even more abundant resource lurking on the Moon: dirt. Scientists have been thinking of ways that we could potentially use the lunar soil, known as regolith, as a kind of building material. We visitedNASA’s Swamp Worksin Kennedy Space Center, where engineers have figured...
A public event will be held to kick off World Space Week at AIA Houston on the evening of Thursday, Oct 4 as part of the AERIAL FUTURES: The Next Frontier think tank taking place in Houston between Oct 4-5, 2018. Expanding Houston’s reputation as Space City, USA, Ellington Airport’...
This image shows part of the ISS with a dramatic backdrop of star trails. Experimenting with long exposures trying to capture star trails with the beautiful structures of the ISS. In the last of five 30 second exposures the sun cracked the horizon creating the brilliant blue on the s...
government agency that runs the country's civilian space program, has accomplished some truly amazing feats since its inception in 1958 -- from beating the Soviet Union in the race to put astronauts on the moon, to exploring the surface of Mars with unmanned robotic vehicles. So you're ...
government agency that runs the country's civilian space program, has accomplished some truly amazing feats since its inception in 1958 -- from beating the Soviet Union in the race to put astronauts on the moon, to exploring the surface of Mars with unmanned robotic vehicles. So you're ...
Billions of years ago, Mars was a much different place than it is today. During the same period when life was first emerging on Earth, Mars had a thicker atmosphere, warmer surface temperatures, and flowing water on its surface. Evidence of this warmer, wetter past is preserved on the plan...
"We see examples of bubbles and cavities and jets that are being blown out by these newborn stars, and even some galaxies lurking... We see some examples of structures that we don't even know what they are. The data is so rich." ...
No spacecraft – unmanned or otherwise – had yet landed on the moon or even taken high-resolution pictures of its surface; in the early days of the Apollo Programme, it was feared that the lunar surface might be covered by several metres of fine dust orregolith,which would swallow up a...