Emerging Tech

White House Unveils Data Sharing Platform for Climate Change Research

A public-private partnership, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services, aims to open up climate-related data.

Emerging Tech

Video: White House, NASA Officials Discuss Asteroid Redirect Mission

The mission's robotic spacecraft will launch in 2021 and fly to an asteroid and capture a chunk of it using an enhanced gravity tractor to bring it back to orbit our moon.

Emerging Tech

Jeff Bezos' New Rocket, Built to Carry Payloads and People

The founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin announced Monday the design of an orbital rocket called New Glenn.

Digital Government

Special Operators Getting New Autonomous Tactical Drone

A prototype microdrone that maps a building’s rooms will change the urban battlefield.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX's 'Difficult and Complex' Failure

Elon Musk says his company is investigating why the Falcon 9 rocket exploded last week before a scheduled launch.

Emerging Tech

NASA Is Launching a Mission to Visit an Asteroid and Maybe Save the World

The ambitious OSIRIS-REx mission promises to provide new information about our universe to the scientific community.

Emerging Tech

SpaceX’s Lost Rocket Could Upset Global Merger and Delay America’s Human Spaceflight Plans

The fire that burst from the top stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket did more than melt aluminum and crack carbon fiber.

Acquisition

GWACs ride the tide of popularity

Big governmentwide contracts are seeing increased buying compared to last year.

Modernization

Report: NASA makes a strong statement in contract dispute

In an unusual move, NASA has let an IT system authority to operate lapse as a means of calling attention to a problematic contract.

Digital Government

University UAS researchers share information network with NASA

UAS researchers and NASA can see each other's drone flights via a secure data network.

Emerging Tech

NASA Just Released 1,000 Weirdly Beautiful Mars Photos

The results are the images created by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, the highest-resolution instrument equipped on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.