This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Michelle Loxton, was originally published by KCLU.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

Elysium customers receive a smartphone application they can share with family and friends to track the cubesat, which is expected to remain in a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit for about two years.

On a clear night in Southern California in late 2024, a handful of photons arrived at the 200-inch mirror of Palomar ...

CubeSat technology on the order of a magnitude smaller and cheaper than conventional planetary science satellites should make its debut in lunar orbit as early as 2017. Although such nano-satellite ...

Artist's concept of the Lunar IceCube spacecraft searching for water from lunar orbit. (Morehead State University) A spacecraft the size of a cereal box will soon be hunting for water on the moon.

The University of Wurzburg Experimental-4 cubesat, pictured, houses four 160-gram Nano Field Effect Electric Propulsion (NanoFEEP) thrusters from German startup Morpheus Space. Credit: Morpheus Space ...

CAPSTONE is an important mission for the next generation of space exploration. A significant step on this ambitious journey will be a crewed mission to the surface of the moon under the Artemis ...

A cubesat mission has a big objective to verify a keystone of NASA's future lunar operations. CAPSTONE, short for "Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation ...

New York, United States, Oct. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Miniature satellites known as CubeSats are much simpler to create, develop, and launch than traditional satellites. By combining different ...