1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (728+ words) A proposal to create a new network for monitoring cosmic threats to off-world infrastructure has won this year's Schweickart Prize, which recognizes bright ideas for planetary defense....

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (169+ words) Instead, the argument goes, it's better to find "passive" technosignatures, such as relics that require literally no upkeep and can last for billions of years. That would eliminate the need for "constant maintenance" of a radio transmitter or high-powered laser,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (218+ words) That interest attracted other researchers to look more closely at the space rock. Odin was designed as a fly-by mission to assess what materials were easily accessible on 2022 OB5. So why not try to prospect it using a different, more remote…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (237+ words) Previous efforts to do so have run into a computational bottleneck. To solve the problem of getting from point A to point B in space, engineers must calculate a spacecraft's orbital transfer. Doing so involves calculating a series of impulsive…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (60+ words) Somewhere out there, hurtling through space in the darkness, is an asteroid with our name on it. We just don't know which one yet. NASA's answer to that uncomfortable truth is NEO Surveyor, a purpose built infrared space telescope currently…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (97+ words) There are tens of thousands of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that represent some of the most easily accessible resources in the solar system. If we can get to them at least. Planning trajectories to rendezvous with these miniature worlds is notoriously…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (284+ words) As NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya stated in an official press statement: The Artemis II crew is home. The entry, descent, and landing systems performed as designed and the final test was completed as intended. This moment belongs to the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (182+ words) While the Pioneer and Voyager missions used a technique called radio occultation to measure Jupiter's radius, with Voyager using an improved method, Juno used a combination of multi-angle radio occultation and gravity science to obtain its measurements. For context, Earth's…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (633+ words) Jupiter's atmosphere and clouds have mesmerized stargazers for centuries, as their multi-colored, swirling layers can easily be viewed from powerful telescopes on Earth. However, NASA's Juno spacecraft has upped the ante regarding our understanding of Jupiter's atmospheric features, having revealed…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (157+ words) The thunderous roar that echoed across Huntsville, Alabama, on January 10 wasn't a rocket launch but something equally momentous: the end of an era. Two massive test stands that helped send humans to the Moon collapsed in carefully choreographed implosions, their…...