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After a decades-long hiatus, we have finally restarted our exploration of the lunar surface using automated landers and rovers. While these missions almost make landing on […]
On May 10, 2016 NASA held a press conference to announce officially the discovery of the latest group of extrasolar planets found by the Kepler mission. […]
According to the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) which maintains records for aeronautical activities, the “official” threshold of space is at an altitude of 100 kilometers which […]
In recent years we have witnessed a veritable flood of extrasolar planetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler mission which watches for regular decreases in a star’s brightness […]
During the earliest years of the Space Age, it seemed that the US Army’s Redstone missile was constantly present. On May 5, 1961 a modified Redstone […]
One of the objectives of NASA’s Kepler mission launched on March 7, 2009, as well as one of the important drivers of its design, was to […]
For many of today’s young space enthusiasts, the now-retired Space Shuttle remains the icon of spaceflight and is still held in high regard today. Many older […]
During the opening years of the Space Age, the Soviet Union managed to score a long string of space firsts taking an early lead in the […]
There have been media reports about a propulsion technology under study that would allow Mars to be reached in just three days instead of the multi-month […]
As 1966 began, NASA was well on its way towards its goal of reaching the Moon before the end of the decade. During 1965, a total […]
As regular readers of Drew Ex Machina are probably aware, in addition to being a writer, I am also a physicist specializing in the processing and […]
Back when I was fresh out of college in the mid-1980s, the buzz in the astronomical community centered on the return of Comet Halley to the […]
