Upcoming "service" satellites will be like doctors for older, ailing satellites. Should they take the Hippocratic…
Author: Sarah Scoles
New Space Robots Will Fix Satellites, or Maybe Destroy Them
Upcoming "service" satellites will be like doctors for older, ailing satellites. Should they take the Hippocratic…
America’s Spaceport Boom Is Outpacing the Need to Go to Space
Cities are building spaceports to try to attract aerospace companies, even if no one's launching much…
China Built the World’s Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists
Thousands of people moved to let China build and protect the world’s largest telescope. And then…
How NASA Built a *Shark Tank* for Space Inventions
At an event in Denver, companies faced off in a battle to win NASA mentorship—and maybe…
The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy
The National Science Foundation has backed away from three of its headlining radio telescopes in the…
How a Uranium Hunter Sniffs Out Nuclear Weapons
Every bit of uranium ore has a chemical fingerprint specific to its source on Earth. Track…
Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Supercomputers. Here’s What to Do About It
What happens when a national laboratory’s supercomputers start glitching?