Space exploration
AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets
Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket landed its booster on a barge at sea – an achievement that will broaden the commercial spaceflight market
NASA goes on an ESCAPADE – twin small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars’ atmosphere
Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while the agency faces a steep proposed budget cut
A decade after the release of ‘The Martian’ and a decade out from the world it envisions, a planetary scientist checks in on real-life Mars exploration
Trump’s nomination for NASA leader boasts business and commercial spaceflight experience during a period of uncertainty for the agency
Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on International Space Station – and discover surprising quirks of zero-gravity life
