The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is testing a series of large spacecraft rolls that will help it hunt for water.
After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance…
A test of a new rocket motor for NASA’s future moon missions went awry this week, with the full-size booster hurling a powerful blaze and scattering debris.
Northrop Grumman, lead contractor for the booster,…
Since its…
This isn’t the first time suction cups were inspired by highly adaptive octopus suckers. Some models have used pressurized chambers meant to push against a surface and conform to it. Others have focused more on matching…
The team behind NASA’s 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, persuading the vehicle to perform a 120-degree roll to peer more clearly into the red planet.
The mission team…
WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron placed an undisclosed satellite into orbit June 28 on the company’s second launch within 48 hours and fourth this month.
The Electron lifted off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New…
In a remote corner of the cosmos, researchers have discovered a giant cloud of high-energy particles, a mini-halo, surrounding a young galaxy cluster that formed just four billion years after the Big Bang.
It’s the most distant structure of…
