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FAA proposes a new regulation that gives commercial launch operators options to dispose of their space rocket's upper stages. Continue reading to learn more.
Between the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and today, humanity has collectively dropped tens of thousands of pieces of litter in low-Earth orbit. Some of it is large enough to keep an eye on, but most of it is too small to see. Worse, as space junk whips around the planet at more than 17,000 miles per hour, it inevitably smashes into other bits of junk, shattering into smaller but more numerous bits. When space exploration began, there wasn’t a lot of thought given to the ultimate fate of abandoned s
Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 5th, 2022, and NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending another day speeding toward the outer coro...
By most ostensible measures, the observable universe is so enormous, so widespread, and so indescribably vast that the chances of finding life somewhere ...
Earlier this year, NASA and DARPA announced the goal to field a nuclear fission-powered spacecraft capable of ferrying human crews from Earth to Mars exp...