DARPA is Exploring Ways to Build Big Things in Space
The U.S. military has awarded contracts under a new program to address in-space manufacturing needs, as part of a larger effort to reduce the costs of spaceflight. Space manufacturing could allow humanity to build large structures efficiently, using materials launched...U.S. Calls for an End to Destructive Satellite Tests in Space
The United States will no longer conduct destructive tests of satellites, Vice President Harris announced Monday, and called on other nations to agree to a set of rules governing responsible behavior in space as Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested with...Final James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Reaches Super-cold Operating Temperature
The James Webb Space Telescope notched a cool milestone — literally — during its months-long calibration for deep-space observations. The final instrument aboard the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope finally achieved its operating temperature of just...Two Seattle-area Students Finalists in NASA Design Contest for Lunar Dirt-digging Robots
Dig this — two Seattle-area students were semifinalists in a national contest run by NASA in which kids in grades K-12 were tasked with designing a robot that could scoop up and transport lunar soil. The Lunabotics Junior Contest winners were named at...Hubble Space Telescope Spots Most Distant Single Star Ever Seen
The most distant single star seen yet dates back to less than 1 billion years after the universe’s birth in the Big Bang, and may shed light on the earliest stars in the cosmos, a new study finds. The scientists nicknamed...
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