Explore the Universe examined how our ideas about the Universe evolved as we developed new astronomical instruments.
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What’s new in aviation and space?
Airplane in Seven Days Jun 24, 2025 By Mark Strauss Aircraft manufacturing doesn’t have
When you hear ’space race‘ you probably (correctly) think about the 1960s Soviet Union v. U.S. race to put an astronaut on the Moon. But a few hundred years before, the space race was all about Venus.
The British, the Germans, the French, and you have to have observations made from
It was slated for use with the Me 262 jet fighter, but could also have been fired
This episode of STEM in 30 will have a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art
Review projects of the staff of the National Air and Space Museum.
New studies have provided insights into the emplacement processes for recent lava
Restoring every artifact. Transforming every experience. Go behind the scenes of the renovation of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
building’s exterior and infrastructure will be revitalized, every object will have
An interview with Dante Lauretta, NASA’s principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission. In his new book, The Asteroid Hunter, Lauretta recounts the sample-return mission that brought rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu to back to Earth.
I was also hoping I wouldn’t have to reject anyone else’s choice.
Scientists are excited about Enceladus as a potential place for life and, more important, as a planet where we can look for life using existing technology and even predict, with some precision, the locations on the icy moon Saturn where we would most likely find this life.
in the surface of the moon’s south pole (bottom row, right), which scientists have
How an accident gave us the checklist, and safer flying.
You have to accept the fact that things can go wrong, so you have to take steps to
