Once the fictional profession of spacefaring roughnecks played by Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, the mining…
Tech billionaires bankroll gold rush to mine asteroids
Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron are among those bankrolling a…
SpaceX delays trip to space station
Space Exploration Technologies, a privately held firm founded and run by entrepreneur Elon Musk, is delaying…
J-2X Engine Ready for ‘Higher’ Level of Tests
The next-generation engine that will help carry humans deeper into space than ever is back, bigger…
The Balearic Islands, as seen from the ISS
Majorca, Mallorca and Ibiza as seen from the ISS by ESA astronaut André Kuipers during his…
Canadian bureaucracy and a joint study with NASA
How a simple question about a this joint study between the Nataional Research Council and NASA…
Astronauts get crash course in Canadarm2
Astronauts on the International Space Station are getting a crash course on the Canadarm2 in order…
Stennis Receives its First-Ever NASA Small Business Administrator’s Cup
For the first time, NASA's Stennis Space Center has received the agency's Small Business Administrator's Cup…
Bepi Colombo mission to Mercury
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains somewhat of a mystery to us. In the…
NASA clears SpaceX for cargo run to space station
NASA has cleared a cargo ship owned by Space Exploration Technologies for a test flight to…