The virtual assistant is aimed at helping astronauts solve unexpected problems during space missions, where expert guidance ...

Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez have clapped back at those criticising them for participating in the all-female Blue Origin NS-13 mission.

Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken Earth’s magnetic field. It’s an intriguing proposition and one that has garnered some support as well ...

Not far from my childhood home was a small airport. I went there often with my friends to watch colorful planes land and take off. The airport had a two-story circular control tower and hanging from ...

A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of the closest planet to the sun on Jan. 8.

500 years Encased in the monument's concrete base is a time capsule containing technical reports, photos, recordings and other memorabilia related to Project Mercury. The sealed metal box is not ...

David W. Brown on a NASA mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to search for alien life, and on the planetary scientist Louise Prockter, a leader of the mission.

Using data collected by the Mass Spectrum Analyser (MSA), Mercury Ion Analyser (MIA), and Mercury Electron Analyser (MEA), and combining these measurements with a computer model to determine the ...

BepiColombo launched into space in October 2018 and is making use of nine planetary flybys: one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury, to help steer itself into orbit around Mercury.

Science Space NASA How NASA and SpaceX get spacecraft safely back on Earth An aerospace engineer explains the science behind splashdown. By Marcos Fernandez Tous / The Conversation ...

In 2021, Koh came across a paper that discussed how to grapple with chaotic orbits from the perspective of symplectic geometry, an abstract field of math that is generally far removed from messy ...

As spacecraft burn up during reentry they release metallic particles into the upper atmosphere. (Image credit: ESA/DLR) In the new theoretical paper, uploaded to the pre-print database arXiv in ...