Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash
Silver Lining When Beresheet, the lunar lander built by the Israel-based company SpaceIL, crashed into the Moon, it was carrying more than the hopes and dreams of the first private…
NASA is Building Inflatable Robot Astronauts
Balloon Animals NASA is investing in robots that do away with hard metal chassis and instead navigate by rapidly inflating and deflating air-filled sacs. Scientists from Brigham Young University teamed…
NASA Asks SpaceX to Help It Save Earth From Incoming Asteroids
Space Besties NASA has a plan to defend Earth from an incoming asteroid — and it’s now tapped SpaceX to help carry it out. On Friday, NASA announced that it had…
NASA Is Funding the Development of 18 Bizarre New Projects
Nurturing the Bizarre NASA isn’t afraid to take a chance on the weird. In fact, it has a program designed for that specific purpose, called NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) —…
NASA Is Sending Cute “Robotic Bees” to the Space Station
Not the Bees! NASA is sending a pair of “robotic bees” to the space station later this month, according to Digital Trends — a project the space agency is positioning as one of…
NASA and MIT Debut Shape-Shifting Airplane Wing
Flying Light A team from NASA and MIT has created a new type of airplane wing — and it could make air travel far more efficient. In a paper published in the journal Smart…
NASA Announces Successful Completion of ISS Spacewalk
ISS Success It wasn’t the spacewalk that was planned, but it was a success nonetheless. On Friday, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch left the relative safety of the International Space Station’s…
These 3D-Printed Mars Habitats Just Won a NASA Award
Space Habitat NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge that kicked off in 2015 has challenged teams around the U.S. to render, prove the structural integrity, and construct a model of a habitat…
NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk
Space Sub The first all-female spacewalk will have to wait. Earlier this month, NASA confirmed that an International Space Station spacewalk scheduled for March 29 would be the first to…
NASA is sending this tiny helicopter to Mars next year
When NASA’s 2020 Mars rover lands on the red planet, it will release an unusual piece of cargo: a miniature helicopter specially built for the Martian skies. The space agency…