The company is named for the term in orbital mechanics that defines an object’s location in its orbit at any one particular time. It has attracted some $400 million in investment, including funding ...

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The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

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In an appearance at NASA's JPL, the actor explains why his latest intergalactic role was so 'liberating,' while the movie's directors and author Andy Weir take us behind the scenes.

NASA's planetary defense has a 45,000 MPH blindspot. Discover why a 7-ton meteor exploded over Ohio with the force of 250 tons of TNT without any early warning.

The great majority of ships operating in Antarctica are ice-strengthened but Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot is the world’s ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has detected underground remains of an ancient river delta on Mars ...

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy ...

A massive crater on asteroid Psyche may hold the key to whether it’s a lost planet’s core or something more complex. New simulations suggest NASA’s upcoming mission could finally solve the mystery.

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Ahead of Amazon’s adaptation of Project Hail Mary, the book’s author discusses alien life, US space exploration and dealing ...