This is not a rendering. It is a launching pad in the New Mexico desert for rocket planes that will send you into space for $200,000. It opens later this year.
There’s a slew of super-large panorama pictures available on the web , but when was the last time you heard about a picture that spans well over half the diameter of Earth?
Gordo Cooper and the last American solo flight in space.
NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the moon in eight years of monitoring.
So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive.
Whoa.
Of all the projects, instruments, and telescopes now operating or soon to debut, not one is capable of delivering what the search for extrasolar life most requires: The atmospheric spectra of any potentially habitable planets around a representative sample of the Sun’s neighboring stars.
A highly speculative search for the fastest ship in science fiction.
NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.
Shields up, and man your battlestations: We're on a collision course…with SCIENCE.
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