NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan night sky. NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras to help ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – This week, NASA aims to fire off rockets into the night sky over Alaska in an attempt to better understand polar auroras – more commonly known as the Northern Lights.

She broke barriers at NASA and contributed to its earliest space missions as a rocket scientist, mathematician and computer programmer. Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the ...

NASA's plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to ... likely referring to the incoming Trump administration. "But there is a big desire for big changes." ...

efficient designs (hence the term "big dumb rocket"). Sea Dragon was one of the proposals, led by American rocket engineer Robert Truax, which captured NASA's attention. "The Sea Dragon concept ...

WASHINGTON – NASA’s mega moon rocket appears to be at crossroads following a major announcement by Boeing that it plans to significantly decrease the number of employees working on the project. In an ...

NASA rockets to study auroral pulsations and flickers in Alaska GIRAFF mission examines fast-pulsating and flickering auroras Black auroras linked to electron reversals explored by new mission ...

Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, which will carry NASA science-technology demonstrations and other commercial payloads to Mons Mouton, a lunar ...

But NASA is exploring some ambitious ... that massive into the narrow confines of a rocket. Even fully compacted, the radiator would be too big and unwieldy. MARVL's approach is delightfully ...

The Big Bang Theory explains how the universe began ... at about 10 billion degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 billion Celsius), according to NASA. The cosmos now contained a vast array of fundamental ...

1 SpaceX. A more interesting question, though, is how Rocket Lab manages to "beat" SpaceX in any way at all? Image source: NASA. Big rockets can't compete with SpaceX At advertised prices ...