NASA’s vision of a moon-orbiting space station comes to life in new 3D video
Right now, engineers are busy crafting the first components of what will eventually become the…
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Tiny new moons have been spotted orbiting Neptune and Uranus
The planets Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) have a few additional moonsNASA, ESA, Mark Showalter…
Planets Orbiting Dead Stars Foretell the Solar System’s Far-Future Fate
In the distant future—about six billion or seven billion years hence—the sun will start to…
SpaceX and T-Mobile send the first text messages from orbiting Starlink satellites
SpaceX sent and received its first text messages sent via T-Mobile using its D2D (direct-to-device)…
What Mars would look like from an orbiting space station
Imagine being in the International Space Station and looking at the world below — except…
Meet ‘Selam,’ the curious double moon orbiting asteroid ‘Dinky’
Something serendipitous happened in early November. It had to do with NASA's Lucy spacecraft, a…