As goes the space industry, so goes North Alabama, the home of manufacturing and integration operations for United Launch ...

A new paper from Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo looks at “the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric reentry” – in other words, what happens ...

Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

The prospect of the Federal Reserve once again setting its short-term interest rate target at near zero levels at some point ...

Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned ...

In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results ...

The traditional Japanese paste tastes nuttier and more roasted when made in orbit, according to an experiment that could help ...

A new paper analyzes the benefits of this engine—which is almost twice as efficient as regular NTR engines—and the many challenges that are keeping this engine from its planet-hopping mission.

Comedian-actor-rapper Hannibal Buress had a long relationship with the space formerly home to The Knitting Factory. In fact, he performed standup at the club’s first show in Brooklyn in 2009 (after it ...

"This is not rocket science—water and other drinks dissolve paper, rendering these straws useless for their sole purpose. A product of a fictitious yet frequently cited statistic, they are ...