NASA is enlisting whatever help it can get to make sure its crewed Moon and Mars missions go smoothly, and that might include help from schools. The agency is running a new round of its Moon to Mars Exploration Systems and Habitation Academic Innovation Challenge that encourages university students to study and develop spacefaring tech. […]
NASA’s “InSight” lander touched down on the surface of Mars, with the goal of examining the Red Planet’s interior. InSight has been in operation for around three months, and it’s already turned up some interesting results. According to reports, InSight has detected hundreds of “marsquakes”; planetary tremors that behave similarly to the ground-shaking natural phenomena […]