America’s next moon landing will be made by private companies, not Nasa. Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Thursday that nine US companies will compete in delivering experiments to the lunar surface.
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While most missions are designed to look at the surface or atmosphere of planetary bodies, InSight’s goal is to look deep beneath the surface.
Nasa has a date on Monday evening South African time with “six minutes of terror”, a high-stakes plunge across the surface of Mars that will hopefully end with a successful landing of the Mars InSight.
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod interviews Major-General Charles Boden, who served as the administrator of Nasa from 2009 until his retirement last year.
Using observations spanning a period of four years, a team of researchers from Italy found evidence of a large lake of salty water, buried 1.5km beneath Mars’s southern polar cap. But does it contain life?
A Martian dust storm covering a quarter of the planet threatens to end a 15-year exploration mission by Nasa’s Mars Opportunity rover. Operators at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory attempted to contact
The US Air Force has delayed the launch of its first Global Positioning System III satellite from this month to October at the earliest as it reviews the upgraded rocket that Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to use to boost it into
For centuries, humans have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbour strange forms of life or have unique and telling histories or futures
A sophisticated successor to Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope won’t launch until at least May 2020 to allow for additional testing and fix production errors in a project that will require more money from the US congress
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to former Nasa deputy chief technologist Jim Adams about everything from the Square Kilometre Array to the search for alien