Donations made by the Musk Foundation to a BU rocketry team uncovered by The Daily Free Press are igniting debates over private donorship and revealing intra-University tensions over the funding it receives.
Musk and Bezos, with their wealth and influence, have the power to be major players in humanity’s fight against climate change. They should use their resources for good rather than to tackle the next frontier.
This week, NASA will launch its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the mission of which, aided by a group of Boston University professors and students, is to locate Earth-like exoplanets.
Rocket manufacturing company SpaceX announced that its new giant rocket, Falcon Heavy, will launch next week — but it won’t be the only launch happening in the next few months. A micro-satellite built...
In the advent of this new space age, people who wish to travel out to space should start thinking of how their lives are going to be like beyond Earth’s atmosphere. While aerospace technology is...
In 1969, we put a man on the moon. In 2024, will we put someone on Mars? Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, thinks we can and will. This feat is planned to be accomplished by SpaceX’s BFR, which...
In the heat of the presidential election, political buzzwords like “racial discrimination,” “illegal immigrants” and “tax plans” are always on the news. Science, however, has been put on...
The stuff of classic science fiction tales -- daring space exploration of exotic planets, bizarre intergalactic alien empires, faster-than-light travel through the seemingly infinite cosmos -- it’s all...
From classic V-2 rockets to winged shuttles, human transport from Earth to beyond is light years ahead of where it once was. And with the Boston Museum of Science premiering a new planetarium show on...
