Feb 27, 2026 // Diplomatic Courier’s Stephanie Gull brings you weekly under–the–radar stories from around the world. This ...

The argument comes up every time a rocket launches or a new space mission gets announced. People look around at climate chaos, inequality, broken systems, and wonder why on earth we’re pouring time ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and human exploration and how we do these best together." When you purchase ...

Ashley Corina Rodriguez is a communication arts major and an FIU Honors College student. She recently traveled to Washington, D.C. on an FIU fly-in seminar for students interested in learning about ...

More than half a century after humans set foot on the Moon, the final frontier still fuels our imagination. Back then, it was all about doing what had never been done before and doing it first. In ...

When a piece of debris hits another object in space, it can also create more space debris, adding to the problem. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. We live in an extraordinary period of exploration. Over the last few decades, humanity ...

Humans have been exploring space since 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. At the height of the space race, government agencies conducted all space missions, but that’s no longer the case.

NLM Photonics’ yearlong analysis of its patented silicon organic hybrid (SOH) electro-optic photonic chips in low Earth orbit is underway aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the ...