Google announced Jan. 21 it is shutting down Loon, a venture to provide wireless connectivity by balloon that has been seen as both complementary to...
Air Force Academy to produce more officers for Space Force. Cadets at the academy can choose to serve in the Air Force or the Space Force after they...
Biden administration appoints Steve Jurczyk acting NASA chief. Jurczyk has been the agency's associate administrator since May 2018, according to his...
I believe small terrestrial planets would have thin crusts (like Mars) that would harden in place once the mantle cooled down. I think only Venus and...
The novel/movie "The Martian" brings up a point, that wreckage or left-behinds on the Moon or elsewhere might be salvaged to aid stranded astronauts....
Why even have this thread, then? If nothing can be said except empty possibilities, why bother to talk about the Fermi question at all? It seems some...
China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US. An explosion of space startups in China is supercharging tech innovation, opening...