By GREGORY ZELLER // That was great, the whole Artemis II thing. Impressive technology, fantastic distance records, peak human ingenuity, above-and-beyond bravery, all clicking without a hitch – stubborn space…
Thanks: Gratitude abounds, intrepid innovators, as we reach the end of a busy Autumnal workweek – and the precipice of not only a well-earned weekend, but the shortest regularly…
Fully recharged: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the first edition of our second 1,000 newsletters. Full disclosure: We were emotionally drained after Wednesday’s big Newsletter Issue No. 1,000…
Sprung: Spring is in the air, dear readers, as we bask in the warm glow of creativity and sow the seeds of socioeconomic innovation. It’s Wednesday, March 10 –…
By GREGORY ZELLER // As the cinema-quality visuals of the Mars 2020 mission fill your screens, some of the most important data beaming back from the Red Planet may escape…
By GREGORY ZELLER // Joel Hurowitz just can’t get off Mars. Hurowitz is not at all like the “The Martian,” titular hero of novelist Andy Weir’s smash hit about a…
By GREGORY ZELLER // With this month’s discovery of liquid-water lakes resting beneath the ruddy surface of Mars, humankind took another giant leap toward the potential colonization of the Red…
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is funding a five-year mission that has Stony Brook University geologists exploring strange, new worlds – and gearing up for…