Setting of the Moon: Apollo 17, Forty Years Later
On the 40th anniversary of the final moon landing, the past remains brighter than the future.
On the 40th anniversary of the final moon landing, the past remains brighter than the future.
Even before the Curiosity Mars rover fully gets to work, NASA is planning its newest mission to the Red Planet.
Texting is replacing the phone call as our preferred means of mobile conversation. But just because it’s easier, faster and makes us less uncomfortable doesn’t mean we should do it.
Communicating with a Mars probe can be a little like talking to the dead. Depending upon how far apart Mars and Earth are at any given moment, it will take anywhere from 4 to 20 minutes for a light-speed radio signal to traverse the distance. What’s breaking news or an imminent danger when the spacecraft sends out its signal can be …
Thousands of scientists from dozens of countries helped find the Higgs boson, but these three took the lead.
If you’re looking for a way to lose billions of dollars, blow up a lot of expensive hardware and possibly even kill people in the bargain, you couldn’t pick a better field than rocketry. There’s a reason only governments have …
Time was, incredibly rich guys bought sports teams. It was fun, it was affordable (by incredibly rich guy standards, at least) and it kept them off the streets. But going to the Super Bowl isn’t enough anymore. For today’s …
A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.