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Moon Dust Could Be a Problem for Future Lunar Explorers

Think of it as a flashback message from the Apollo moonwalkers: The moon is a Disneyland of dust. Between 1969 and the end of 1972, a dozen astronauts kicked up the powdery regolith, the topside dirt of the moon. "The more time you spend there, the more ...

NASA Needs to Get With the Times When It Comes to Planetary Protection, Report Finds

NASA's current planetary-protection policies reflect a bygone era of space exploration and need to be updated, a new report argues. Planetary protection refers to the effort to keep the solar system as pristine as possible. The main goals are to minimize the ...

NASA Aims for Mars Landings in 2035 While Building Support for Lunar Gateway

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is looking to land humans on Mars in the 2030s as he recruits partners of the International Space Station to help the agency land humans on the moon by 2024, according to his remarks at the International Astronautical ...

After an historic all-female spacewalk, astronaut has moon dream

CNN

CNN

(CNN) In her high school yearbook, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir wrote "go for a spacewalk" on the list of her plans for the future, Meir said Monday during a news conference from the International Space Station. Now, she can check that box. Meir, alongside ...

Historic Women Spacewalkers Hope to Land on the Moon

After making history at the space station, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir look to the moon. This past Friday (Oct. 18), Koch and Meir conducted the first-ever "all woman spacewalk," during which they replaced a faulty piece of hardware that ...

Rocket Lab Aims for the Moon and Beyond with New Photon Satellite Platform

WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab is shooting for the moon. Literally. The small-satellite launch startup announced today (Oct. 21) that its new Photon satellite platform will be able to fly small spacecraft on deep-space missions to the moon and beyond. The plan ...

Astrovan II: Airstream Builds New Transport for Boeing Starliner Crews

When Chris Ferguson last left for a launchpad to lift off into space, he rode on a modified Airstream motorhome that NASA used for decades to transport its astronauts. Now, eight years after Ferguson commanded the final space shuttle mission, there is a new ...

Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — A bolt from the maybe-future struck the technology community in late September. A paper by Google computer scientists appeared on a NASA website, claiming that an innovative new machine called a quantum computer had ...

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash

What happened to the dinosaurs when an asteroid about six miles wide struck Earth some 66 million years ago in what is today Mexico is well known: It wiped them out. But the exact fate of our planet's diverse ocean dwellers at the time — shelly ammonites, ...

Embattled Russian scientist sharpens plans to create gene-edited babies

Science Magazine

Science Magazine

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Earlier this month, Denis Rebrikov went to an old mansion in Moscow that now houses the Russian Academy of Sciences's (RAS's) Institute of Philosophy to confront his critics and set the record straight.