How do you maintain spacecraft 22,000 miles away? DARPA wants to find out with the first launch of the dexterous, deep-space ...
In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...
Every spacecraft NASA has sent beyond low-Earth orbit over the past two decades has relied on some version of the same brain: the RAD750, a radiation-hardened processor built by BAE Systems that runs ...
On a clear night in Southern California in late 2024, a handful of photons arrived at the 200-inch mirror of Palomar ...
NASA is testing a powerful new space chip that could let future spacecraft make decisions without waiting for Earth.
US technology company L3Harris Technologies announced it has finalised the design of a next-generation nuclear-based power ...
Turkish Lunar Research Program to carry out Türkiye's first moon and deep space missions, making it one of the few countries ...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant slingshot on its journey to a mysterious metal world that could reveal what’s hidden inside planets like Earth.
Around the world, people watched NASA’s Artemis II mission in awe as humans returned to lunar orbit for the first time since ...
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an ...