Humanity’s drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers’ wheels ...
SpaceX’s Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, completes final V2 test, prepares for Moon and Mars with a new, fully ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first space race was about flags and footprints.
Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Lockheed Martin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in ...
Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges on SpaceX’s Starship.
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it might feel like a ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Author: Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi The first space race was about ...