‘For All Mankind’ Is the Best Sci-Fi of Its Era

  New Star Wars, new Star Trek, Russian Doll, Severance—lately sci-fi followers face a humiliation of riches. On Friday, they are going to get much more with the return of…

NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter

  Ingenuity, NASA’s autonomous Mars helicopter, was solely meant to finish 5 flights. However since its history-making first flight in April 2021, the helicopter has flown 28 instances, and preparation…

The FAA Says SpaceX Can’t Expand Its Texas Launch Site—Yet

  After months of suspense, the Federal Aviation Administration has lastly weighed in on the environmental results of the deliberate enlargement of SpaceX’s sprawling Starbase launch facility close to Boca…

How Lost Hikers Can Send an SOS to Space

  Final July, two hikers have been on a backpacking journey in California’s Shasta-Trinity Nationwide Forest. Simply northeast of Granite Lake—a small physique of water edged by deadfall and a…

The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid Spotter Is Here

  Gigantic asteroids have smashed into the Earth earlier than—RIP dinosaurs—and if we’re not watching out for all these errant area rocks, they might crash into our world once more,…

What’s It Like to Drive NASA’s 1972 Moon Buggy?

The frenetic pace of gear releases means it is inevitable that WIRED cannot get to all of them in a timely fashion. But if they are important, rest assured, we…