NASA's New Millennium Program: Taking Risks to Reduce Future Danger By Nola Taylor Redd The New Millennium Program explored new technology in space to reduce mission costs.
Some Assembly Required: Giant Next-Generation Space Telescopes Could Be Built Off Earth By Hanneke Weitering When it comes to telescopes, size matters.
The Strange History of Real-World Laser Weapons: Q&A with Author Jeff Hecht By Chelsea Gohd In his latest book, Jeff Hecht details the incredible and incredibly weird history of real-life laser weapons.
Kite-Blown Sled Climbs Antarctic Ice Dome, One of the Coldest Places on Earth By Megan Gannon For the first time, an expedition climbed Fuji Dome in the interior of East Antarctica using a wind-blown vehicle.
Astronaut Suits Up in 'Smart' Astroskin Jersey on Space Station By Jasmin Malik Chua A Canadian Space Agency astronaut has deployed for the first time a new "smart" jersey designed to monitor real-time changes in its wearer's physiology without disrupting the flow of daily activity.
Students Relive Apollo 11 Moon Landing with NASA's 'Next Giant Leap' Challenge By Meghan Bartels If you could put anything on the moon to represent you and your community, what would you choose?
This Wild Moon Base Idea Came from Architecture Students (Video) By Samantha Mathewson Architectural students working with the European Space Agency have created a new concept for a sustainable lunar habitat.
This Is the Purest Beam of Light in the World By Rafi Letzter The device, built to be portable enough for use in space, produces a beam of laser light that changes less over time than any other laser humanity has created.
Coffee Lovers May Someday Brew Their Java with Space-Roasted Beans By Sarah Lewin There's gourmet coffee, and then there's coffee roasted by the searing heat of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere from the edge of space.
China Has a Robot Ship that Launches Small Rockets ... for Science By Meghan Bartels China has built the world's first robotic, partially submersible boat for launching sounding rockets — a technology that will help meteorologists better understand the atmosphere over Earth's oceans.
Israel Aerospace Industries Partners with OHB On Moon Delivery Services By Jeff Foust The Israeli company that built a privately funded lunar lander scheduled for launch next month is partnering with a German firm to offer similar landers for future European Space Agency missions.
'ISS Experience' to Bring Public Onto and Outside Space Station in VR By Robert Z. Pearlman What if you could visit the International Space Station, join its crew for their daily activities and even go on a spacewalk — all without leaving your home, let alone the ground?
Astronaut Twins Mark and Scott Kelly Take on Amazon's Alexa in Super Bowl Ad Teaser By Elizabeth Howell What's the next frontier for retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a year in space; and twin retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, who flew multiple times on the space shuttle?
Next Steps for the Pentagon's New Space Sensors for Missile Defense By Sandra Erwin The Missile Defense Agency is evaluating nine proposals for space sensor architectures. With $73 million that Congress already appropriated, the agency will select three to continue on.
