Now that NASA has resolved the question ... chunks of charred material cracked and chipped away from Orion's heat shield during reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Once the spacecraft landed ...

The space suits worn during SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA's classic marshmallow suits. There ...

Finally, NASA is preparing to send people back to the moon on the ... crew on the Artemis II mission,” according to the audit. The Orion capsule’s heat shield, for instance, broke down differently ...

The cost of a type of aerogel, the world’s lightest solid material, has been cut astronomically thanks to Chinese researchers. Aerogels have long been used by space agencies such as Nasa for ...

Flexural isostasy states that this massive region should force the planet's surface downward. But the reverse is true.

An odd pattern of impact craters across Earth's surface may indicate that our planet once had a ring, like Saturn, in its ...

The ability to craft a compelling, artistic, and evocative documentary film is a true filmmaker's test and one that British ...

NASA’s Pegasus barge is now at the Kennedy ... including an ongoing analysis of the Orion heat shield. Material unexpectedly chipped away during the uncrewed Artemis I flight test.

The Polaris Dawn mission performed the first private spacewalk in history. It also tested some groundbreaking space ...

that the NASA Mission Control could not make sense of, and they didn’t know how badly the explosion would have damaged the heat shields.” Days later upon seeing it for the first time ...

For all the awe space travel inspires, it takes a toll on human bodies. Abrupt changes of gravity, prolonged time in ...