Having never been tested with astronauts, the space capsule’s heat shield and life support system are raising concerns after problems were detected in the unmanned Artemis 1 mission
The Spaniard is leading a team of 70 people dedicated to solving serious problems during the first manned trip to the satellite in more than half a century
NASA will attempt to send four astronauts to orbit the Earth’s satellite in April, in a mission that no longer faces Soviet competition, but Chinese
The four crew members landed safely on Thursday off the coast of California and will spend the night in a San Diego hospital to protect the privacy of the affected astronaut
NASA will start the process to launch the first crewed mission to the moon in half a century next month in a new space race with China
The French-American scientist heads the Carl Sagan Center and researches the potential for humans to inhabit the extreme environments of our galaxy
The scientist who discovered the black hole at the center of our galaxy reflects on social media and the unpredictable power of human curiosity
The US space agency redraws what the interior of Saturn’s largest moon, the most similar to Earth, would look like
On December 19, this interstellar visitor with its peculiar composition offers a glimpse into the makeup of celestial bodies beyond the Sun
A NASA study predicts that 96% of the images from the ARRAKIHS mission will be contaminated by the light from the more than 500,000 devices that Starlink and other megaconstellations intend to launch
An international team of scientists confirmed the first record of a plasma ejection from a red dwarf star outside the solar system
As the first Hispanic woman to travel to space and director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the former astronaut has broken barriers and paved the way in science and space exploration
The aerospace engineer is the mission director for Ispace. ‘The idea is that by 2040 there will be about a thousand people living permanently on the Moon, and around 40,000 tourists a year’
The US space agency has announced a new schedule for Artemis 2 that will lay the groundwork for the first human landing since 1972
A study analyzes biosignatures in samples that would need to be brought back to Earth for confirmation, a mission Donald Trump wants to cancel
Data from NASA’s Insight mission suggest that the red planet is much more similar to Earth than previously thought
While unions accused the president of being the most hostile on labor issues, Labor Day in the US was marked by more than a thousand protests under the slogan Workers Over Billionaires
The spacecraft destined to land astronauts on the ‘Artemis III’ mission in 2027 has yet to reach Earth orbit, following 10 test flights since April 2023
The historical drama starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson returns to theaters 50 years after an opening as tumultuous as its production
The discovery of an unusual stellar explosion confirms the existence of a ‘cosmic onion’ with layers of chemical elements inside each star
The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real proportions
A renowned theoretical physicist is proposing the possibility of sending tiny spacecraft to the nearest black hole to Earth to test the limits of physics. His colleagues believe the proposal is too speculative
The former vice president of MIT warns of the ‘devastating’ consequences of Donald Trump’s policies on the world of science
Industries are embracing these geometric shapes, which were imagined in 1970 by a NASA scientist. Decades later, they have been observed inside butterfly wings and other ultralight biological structures
The prestigious research journal cites a change of standards to dismiss a NASA study that claimed to have discovered a bacterium that thrives on arsenic
The recently approved Big Beautiful Bill includes billions of dollars in spending in a concession to Republican representatives from states closely linked to the manned space exploration program
In both the Soviet Union and the United States, early space programs used animals as test pilots, with little regard for their well-being