The high-heat alloy is said to last 2,500 times longer than other nickel-base alloys. We often see and hear manufacturers say that they’ve used “aerospace-grade” materials in their products.
Our world is advanced enough for us to believe we've pretty much uncovered all there is to uncover in the realm of materials. Yet, with the recent arrival of new technologies, including the ...
Anyone who has watched Matthew McConaughey plunge into a supermassive black hole in "Interstellar" may think they have a rough idea of what it'd be like to encounter one of these terrifying cosmic ...
Supermassive black holes are capable of violently devouring entire stars, and warping the very fabric of spacetime with their near incomprehensible mass and gravitational influence. Their awesome ...
The damage to the Orion capsule from the Artemis I mission is already top of mind for NASA as it works to make the Artemis II mission safe for humans. But a new agency report revealed the extent ...
NASA engineers spent months doggedly trying to fix a computer on Voyager 1, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s that’s now exploring interstellar space. For the past six months a team of ...
NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen join Washington Post Live on Tuesday, June 4. (Video: The Washington Post) The planned launch of ...
Imagine leaving work in L.A. or San Francisco a little early on a Friday afternoon and winding up with a drink on the beach in Maui before cocktail hour is over. Imagine Seattle to Tokyo in four ...
A graphic displaying Boeing’s spacesuit for Starliner astronauts. NASA/Boeing Two NASA astronauts are making final preparations directly ahead of the first crewed launch of the new Boeing ...
On June 2, 1966, NASA's Surveyor 1 reached the lunar surface and became the first American spacecraft to successfully execute a soft landing on the moon. On June 2, 1966, NASA's Surveyor 1 reached ...