Tag: space

This contraction means the upper atmosphere is becoming less dense, which in turn reduces drag on satellites and other objects ...

With the Mars simulation, Haney suggests that NASA should watch the crew for danger signs, like symptoms of depression, heightened ...

In June a four-person crew will enter a hangar at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and spend one ...

It’s a radical view of quantum behavior that many physicists take seriously. “I consider it completely real,” said Richard MacKenzie, ...

A boxy, 7.5-foot-tall spacecraft is making its final approach to the moon, where it will make history—if it touches down ...

Intriguingly, this kind of decoherence will occur anywhere there is a horizon that only allows information to travel in one ...

First-time orbital flights can be challenging and often fail, like Relativity Space’s 3D-printed rocket, which launched in March and flew until ...

In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea ...

Ganymede likely has some special characteristics. It isn’t just Jupiter’s biggest moon, but the biggest in the entire solar system ...

The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because ...