Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars... within two years
The SpaceX founder aims to send five unmanned spacecraft to the red planet, taking advantage of the launch window that will open in 2025
The SpaceX founder aims to send five unmanned spacecraft to the red planet, taking advantage of the launch window that will open in 2025
In this excerpt from his book, journalist Rafael Clemente recounts the amazing history of space exploration
The USS ‘Halibut,’ under the command of Jack McNish, was a vessel with experience in secret operations and carried very advanced equipment for the 1970s
NASA has taken up SpaceX’s proposal to crash the International Space Station into the Pacific Ocean. The firm plans to do this with a Dragon capsule spacecraft, starting in 2030
The discovery of a gigantic lava tube about 250 miles from where ‘Apollo 11′ landed opens the possibility of taking advantage of these features to construct bases in the near future
Plans are already underway to harvest this material from the lunar surface where lunar water will also be available from its craters
The Asian superpower’s project, which combines elements of the 1960s manned mission programs, kicks off with a lunar satellite launch
After taking advantage of their modest budgets, the Japanese ‘SLIM’ and the U.S. ‘Odysseus’ modules landed on the satellite with difficulty
Japan’s ‘SLIM’ spacecraft executes a challenging landing, showcasing the complexity of this remarkable achievement
American astronauts pressured commanders to reassess their workload, though the episode has been exaggerated
Various initiatives to preserve human history and civilization sent archives into space for extraterrestrial archaeologists to find
After an FAA ruling last April following the failure of the first test launch, the private space company has modified its craft and launch pad to meet authorization requirements
The James Webb telescope just detected carbon dioxide on this Galilean satellite, one of the nearby worlds studied for extraterrestrial life
As SpaceX prepares a new launch of its Starship super rocket, an unknown Chinese company named LandSpace has beaten it to the punch and put an all-methane space shuttle into orbit
In the past, the zero meridian used to be established coinciding with the last known land, beyond which there was only unexplored ocean
The Russian ‘Luna-25,’ which is heading towards the south pole of the Moon, is the first in a series of probes from several countries that will explore its surface in the coming years
Four planetary probes were launched in the 1970s, carrying information about Earth. This was in case – in the very distant future – they were to fall into the hands of an extraterrestrial civilization
On July 21, a human error caused a slight disorientation of the main antenna of the veteran spacecraft, which is beyond the Solar System and could be cut off from Earth until October
SpaceX engineers are facing a serious problem that will have an immediate impact on the U.S. space agency’s plans to send astronauts back to the Moon in 2025
The powerful SpaceX spacecraft, capable of going to the Moon and Mars, exploded when its two modules attempted to separate
With nearly a quarter century of history behind it, the international space station probably won’t make it into the next decade
A new project known as the Habitable World Observatory aims to better understand near-Earth exoplanets and study those that could support life
As soon as the last stage of the rocket was shut down, 10 small satellites were ejected. Some of them have failed to reach their destinations, but most are still active
The NASA capsule traveled nearly 270,000 miles from Earth on its trip to the Moon, a greater distance than the Apollo 13 program achieved in 1970
The new, joint US-EU space program is going back to the Moon
The impact of the 600-kilogram device was equivalent to two and a half tons of dynamite, sending tons of debris into space that now forms a 10,000 km tail
The NASA probe will photograph the satellite, which researchers believe could be capable of supporting life