NASA Engineers Unveil The First Light-Based Modem For Spacecraft

To send and receive data, orbiting spacecraft depend on radio-frequency communications. It's been this way since the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, which made use of two radio f...

A Japanese Probe That Was Lost In Space For 5 Years Has Finally Made It To Venus

Back in 2010, Akatsuki was launched into space to study the surface of Venus. While the spacecraft reached the planet on 7 December 2010, it didn’t quite enter o...

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NASA Hopes Its Dramatic CO2 Simulations Will Get UN Leaders To Act

In a press release, NASA said that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measures at 400 parts per million (ppm), but it?s rising at 2 ppm every year. While...

A Step-By-Step Guide To Terraforming Mars

It has been a long dream for humankind to discover another liveable planet. But because of severe conditions such as powerful solar winds and a lack of atmosphere, our good...

NASA Releases A Year's Worth Of Data About The Habitability Of Mars

MAVEN, full name the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, started orbiting Mars just over a year ago with the goal of gathering data about the Martian atmosphere...

NASA Releases A Year's Worth Of Data About The Habitability Of Mars

MAVEN, full name the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, started orbiting Mars just over a year ago with the goal of gathering data about the Martian atmosphere...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is About To Get a Precarious Memory Wipe

Prior to its Aug. 12, 2005 launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was loaded up with 10 years’ worth of data projecting the future positions of Earth ...

‘We Were So Surprised’: Researchers Detect Oxygen On Rosetta’s Comet

Rosetta’s ROSINA instrument—a mass spectrometer—detected O2 in the icy body’s coma, the cloud of gas and dust and other space stuff around Comet 67P...