NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid
An illustration depicts a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Though there are no plans…
Birth of Unix
Sometimes it feels like Unix has been around forever, at least to users who have used…
Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
That mission, and the 2020 Chang’e-5 robotic mission before it, are the first to return lunar…
There was a straight shot from Earth to the Moon and Mars last night
The most recent lunar occultation of Mars that was visible from the United States occurred on…
NASA awards SpaceX a contract for one of the few things it hasn’t done yet
Notably, the Dragonfly launch was one of the first times United Launch Alliance has been eligible…