Mars is a planet of vast contrasts — huge volcanoes, deep canyons, and craters that may or may not host running water. It will be an amazing location for future tourists to explore, once we put the first Red Planet colonies into motion. The landing sites for these future missions will likely need to be flat plains for safety and practical reasons, but perhaps they could land within a few days' drive of some more interesting geology. Here are some locations that future Martians could visit.Olympus Mons is the most extreme volcano in the solar system. Located in the Tharsis volcanic region,...…Mars is a planet of vast contrasts — huge volcanoes, deep canyons, and craters that may or may not host running water. It will be an amazing location for future tourists to explore, once we put the first Red Planet colonies into motion. The landing sites for these future missions will likely need to be flat plains for safety and practical reasons, but perhaps they could land within a few days' drive of some more interesting geology. Here are some locations that future Martians could visit.Olympus Mons is the most extreme volcano in the solar system. Located in the Tharsis volcanic region,...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope creates the most comprehensive map of our galaxy, the Milky Way. By measuring the precise positions, speeds and trajectories of about 2 billion of the brightest stars in the sky, Gaia enables astronomers not only to see the galaxy as it looks today, but also to replay the movie of its life millions and billions of years into the past and future. While not such a household name as the or the , Gaia has...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope creates the most comprehensive map of our galaxy, the Milky Way. By measuring the precise positions, speeds and trajectories of about 2 billion of the brightest stars in the sky, Gaia enables astronomers not only to see the galaxy as it looks today, but also to replay the movie of its life millions and billions of years into the past and future. While not such a household name as the or the , Gaia has...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .When you're out exploring the universe, what kind of music should you listen to?The answer is very personal to the spaceflyer, the culture and perhaps even the decade when they flew — but what is true to say of all eras is there is a heck of a lot of great space music out there. Some even were played in space, like this list of NASA , or this from the Voyager mission Golden Record that eventually left our solar system.It's hard to pick favorites and even more difficult to...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .When you're out exploring the universe, what kind of music should you listen to?The answer is very personal to the spaceflyer, the culture and perhaps even the decade when they flew — but what is true to say of all eras is there is a heck of a lot of great space music out there. Some even were played in space, like this list of NASA , or this from the Voyager mission Golden Record that eventually left our solar system.It's hard to pick favorites and even more difficult to...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .2022 is going to be big for science at NASA. A summary of the shows that the fiscal year 2022, which begins on Oct. 1, 2021, will include more than a dozen science-focused missions, ranging from observing the Earth to exploring other worlds to studying faraway galaxies and galaxy clusters.Below is the full list of these science-focused missions — note that the list leaves off planned deliveries to the International Space Station that could include science equipment and...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .2022 is going to be big for science at NASA. A summary of the shows that the fiscal year 2022, which begins on Oct. 1, 2021, will include more than a dozen science-focused missions, ranging from observing the Earth to exploring other worlds to studying faraway galaxies and galaxy clusters.Below is the full list of these science-focused missions — note that the list leaves off planned deliveries to the International Space Station that could include science equipment and...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from .A mission called Spatial Heterodyne Interferometric Emission Line Dynamics Spectrometer (SHIELDS) will lift off from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico no earlier than Monday (April 19). It will soar to a peak height of 186 miles (roughly 300 kilometers) — a little more than half the altitude of the — and peer at the sky for a few minutes with its...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from .A mission called Spatial Heterodyne Interferometric Emission Line Dynamics Spectrometer (SHIELDS) will lift off from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico no earlier than Monday (April 19). It will soar to a peak height of 186 miles (roughly 300 kilometers) — a little more than half the altitude of the — and peer at the sky for a few minutes with its...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Amazon has selected (ULA) to start launching its megaconstellation of internet satellites to space.ULA will participate in nine launches of Project Kuiper, which Amazon hopes will eventually send 3,236 advanced satellites to low Earth orbit. The number of satellites ULA will send aloft was not disclosed in a from the two organizations, nor was the value of the launch contract.The missions will proceed on ULA's from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Amazon has selected (ULA) to start launching its megaconstellation of internet satellites to space.ULA will participate in nine launches of Project Kuiper, which Amazon hopes will eventually send 3,236 advanced satellites to low Earth orbit. The number of satellites ULA will send aloft was not disclosed in a from the two organizations, nor was the value of the launch contract.The missions will proceed on ULA's from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .It's been 40 years since NASA's first soared into orbit and the space agency has unveiled a new video to commemorate that debut flight, which opened up access to space in a way not ever seen before.NASA's , STS-1 aboard the orbiter lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Orlando on April 12, 1981. To get there, the flight had to overcome numerous budgetary, timeline and design challenges along the way to get there. Americans attending the launch in Florida, near...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .It's been 40 years since NASA's first soared into orbit and the space agency has unveiled a new video to commemorate that debut flight, which opened up access to space in a way not ever seen before.NASA's , STS-1 aboard the orbiter lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Orlando on April 12, 1981. To get there, the flight had to overcome numerous budgetary, timeline and design challenges along the way to get there. Americans attending the launch in Florida, near...WW…

Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The ocean of the water-spurting moon might be more active than scientists realized.New theories based on the shape of the ice shell suggest that 12 miles (20 kilometers) below the surface, the ocean inside Saturn's icy moon may have currents similar to those on Earth.Scientists have been keeping an eye on Enceladus since 2014, when the caught dozens of geysers spewing through fissures in the ice shell. This new theory, however, challenges previous thinking that suggested...…Space is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .The ocean of the water-spurting moon might be more active than scientists realized.New theories based on the shape of the ice shell suggest that 12 miles (20 kilometers) below the surface, the ocean inside Saturn's icy moon may have currents similar to those on Earth.Scientists have been keeping an eye on Enceladus since 2014, when the caught dozens of geysers spewing through fissures in the ice shell. This new theory, however, challenges previous thinking that suggested...WW…

Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .hasn't yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover's new digs.NASA's rover is waiting for its companion, the , to make the first-ever powered flight on another planet. Meanwhile, its instruments targeted a greenish-looking rock on the Red Planet's surface that has the science team "trading lots of hypotheses," — but as one of them."Is it something weathered out of the local bedrock?," a on Wednesday (March 31) wondered. "Is it a piece of Mars...…Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .hasn't yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover's new digs.NASA's rover is waiting for its companion, the , to make the first-ever powered flight on another planet. Meanwhile, its instruments targeted a greenish-looking rock on the Red Planet's surface that has the science team "trading lots of hypotheses," — but as one of them."Is it something weathered out of the local bedrock?," a on Wednesday (March 31) wondered. "Is it a piece of Mars...WW…

Houston-based Axiom Space's Ax-3 flight remains on track for a launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) no sooner than January 2024. The four crewmembers, including a former NASA astronaut, a European Space Agency reserve astronaut and a passenger who flew to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic earlier this year, spoke with journalists on Monday (Oct. 16) about their excitement. "I'm very happy to be a part of this mission and this great crew," Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt said during the livestreamed press conference, emphasizing that Ax-3 will include representation from...…Houston-based Axiom Space's Ax-3 flight remains on track for a launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) no sooner than January 2024. The four crewmembers, including a former NASA astronaut, a European Space Agency reserve astronaut and a passenger who flew to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic earlier this year, spoke with journalists on Monday (Oct. 16) about their excitement. "I'm very happy to be a part of this mission and this great crew," Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt said during the livestreamed press conference, emphasizing that Ax-3 will include representation from...WW…