Roman Space Telescope Launch: NASA’s New Eye on Space
At Kennedy Space Centre on a Saturday morning, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched through the coastal fog and directed NASA's...
Lunar Excavator Prototype Readied for Moon Base
For 75 years, Vermeer Corporation has built trenchers and ploughs for farmland in Pella, Iowa. Their machines dig irrigation channels,...
NASA X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Breaks Mach 1
At 11:08 on a Friday morning in the California desert, test pilot Jim Less pulled back on the yoke of...
NASA Fires Up Lithium Thruster for Mars Missions
A tungsten electrode reached 2,800 degrees Celsius. Inside a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a...
Artemis II Moon Mission: How Engineers Sent Humans Back to the Moon
Fifty-four years is a long time between visits. On 1 April 2026, NASA's Space Launch System rocket lifted four astronauts...
Artemis II – Organ Chip "avatars" fly Beyond the Moon
Somewhere inside the Orion spacecraft, as it swung around the far side of the Moon in early April 2026, a...
Artemis II Moon Mission Rocket Reaches Launch Pad After Repair
At twenty past midnight on 20 March, a 322-foot rocket began creeping along a concrete crawlerway in Florida at a...
NASA X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Completes Second Flight
At 10:54 on the morning of 20 March, a long, white aircraft with an improbably pointed nose lifted off from...