NEW SATELLITE DATA REVEALS WHOPPING BOOST IN SHIPPING Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, likely causing more water, air and noise pollutio... Read more
By the end of September, NASA aerospace engineer Jason Budinoff is expected to complete the first imaging telescopes ever assembled almost exclusively from 3-D-manufactured components. “As f... Read more
NASA technologists have hurdled a number of significant technological challenges in their quest to improve an already revolutionary observing technology originally created for the James Webb... Read more
The completion of the 30-day Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration or LLCD mission has revealed that the possibility of expanding broadband capabilities in space using laser communications... Read more
NASA’s newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland. The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Re... Read more
While the 138,000-acre Silver Fire still smoldered, forest restoration specialists were on the job. They analyzed maps created using Landsat satellite data to determine where the burn destro... Read more
Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA’s new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously in one of Earth’s harshest e... Read more
The southern half of the U.S. has been rapidly depleting its groundwater over the last decade, according to new scientific research In New Mexico, the Rio Grande is trickling through Albuque... Read more
A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications similar in capability to high-speed fiber optic networks on Earth. A new NAS... Read more
“This is the first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances,” As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the... Read more
The “next best thing” since the invention of silicon Tiny sensors — made of a potentially trailblazing material just one atom thick and heralded as the “next best thing” since the inve... Read more
The space agency is developing a service robot that can visit ailing satellites and refuel or even repair them on the spot. Geostationary satellites cost a fortune and, despite their sophist... Read more