Spacecraft designers look at blueprints for a real-world version of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise.

Wired’s spaceflight experts talk about the impact that SpaceX’s upcoming launch to the International Space Station will have.

This is part of a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read previous interviews here. We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space. On May 19, if all goes well, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will lift off the launchpad, bringing the Dragon [...]

Wired talks to Commercial Spaceflight Federation president and former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria about the upcoming SpaceX launch.

Literally. We have, over the past five decades, gone from being in awe of space-based instruments to relying on them as an everyday piece of the picture of life.

Except that we’re letting them die.

Ninety is the combined number of Earth-observing in…

When Percival Lowell first looked at Mars through his telescope in the 1890s, he saw some remarkable patterns: connecting lines crisscrossing the surface, linking distant ends of the planet in a seemingly non-natural way.  Lowell subscribed to Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli’s interpretation that the lines were canals deliberately constructed by intelligent beings to transport water.  [...]

The New York Times announces that the game is over for climate. NASA scientist James Hansen’s op-ed is a startling indictment both of Alberta’s mostly foreign-owned tar sands and Obama’s laissez-faire attitude towards Canada’s exploitation of the sands. In the president’s words, Harper and the oil juggernauts will do what it takes to expand "regardless of what we do."

It’s a sobering

A NASA engineer talks to Wired about SpaceX’s upcoming launch to the International Space Station.

The U.S. is in danger of losing its ability to monitor Earth from space. In this gallery we take a look at some of the amazing images and data that Earth-observing satellites have given us.

In our third Q&A with spaceflight experts, Wired talks to policy analyst Linda Billings about the upcoming SpaceX launch.

Wired’s Q&A with explorer and robotics engineer Bill Stone on the upcoming historic SpaceX flight.

This week, Wired interviews experts in the spaceflight community to discuss the ways this historic launch will impact NASA and mankind’s presence in space. Is it a giant leap, or just a baby step? Up today is Henry Hertzfeld, a scholar of economic, legal, and policy issues surrounding spaceflight and NASA at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Hertzfeld’s research has looked into the privatization of the Space Shuttle, the economic benefits of NASA’s research and development expenditures, and the socioeconomic impacts of earth observation technologies.

Tom Harris with Charles Adler: WUWT: Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance            and Former NASA Scientists, Astronauts to Attend Heartland Institute Climate …

So, many, many things I’d like to blog upon at the moment. I’m in Brasilia at the Open Government Partnership meeting, so obviously lots to talk about there, and, of course, Canada Post has completely lost it and is suing a company over postal code data but it’s been twenty hour days and those post [...]

NASA records a large CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) using its SDO satellite.

Less than a week before space shuttles start rolling out for public display, NASA’s prime space shuttle contractor gave pink slips to more than 9 percent of its work force.

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This is a guest post from Dr. John Abraham
You could almost set your watch by it.  It has become a regular absurdity that a bunch of non-scientists try to tell the world that…

Cliff1.jpg This is a guest post from Dr. John Abraham You could almost set your watch by it.  It has become a regular absurdity that a bunch of non-scientists try to tell the world that they know something the experts don’t.  T…

agrees with über alarmist Hansen. The consensus is coming apart at the seams.

In an unprecedented slap at NASA’s endorsement of global warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and scientists–including the ex-boss of the Johnson Space Center–…

This video showing the Earth’s ocean currents illustrates a remarkable “Starry Night” effect.