“Where is everybody?” potiros tanarm/Shutterstock The universe has so many galaxies, stars, planets, and moons that many scientists believe intelligent aliens should exist within detectable range...
The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth in 2009. NASA/ESA A vital part inside the Hubble Space Telescope, which records stunning images of the universe, failed on...
Inside World View’s campus in Tucson, Arizona.World View About 1,900 active satellites are orbiting Earth as you read this sentence. That may seem like a lot...
One of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets launches toward space. SpaceX via Flickr (public domain) Boeing and SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, are competing for lucrative NASA...
Blue Moon is a concept for a “large lunar lander” that Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company, Blue Origin, plans to build and launch. Blue Origin Jeff Bezos,...
Apollo 11 astronauts took this photo of Earth on July 20, 1969.NASA/Flickr From the ground, Earth looks like a boundless fertile plain that beckons to be explored and exploited....
A satellite view of the Mississippi River in April 2018.Deimos Imaging/UrtheCast Rivers are veins that nourish human civilization. They fill our glasses with drinking water, irrigate...
The solar panels of NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover covered with dust in January 2014. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. A dust storm that enveloped Mars in June...
An illustration of SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket launching into space. Here, the spaceship is shown detaching from the booster. SpaceX Elon Musk recently announced plans to...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the International Astronautical Congress on September 29, 2017 in Adelaide, Australia. Mark Brake/Getty Images Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX,...
