Space Junk
Water-Hunting Moon Rover Shows It Can Safely Exit a Lander and Start Its 100-Day Mission
5 Jul 2023, 07:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA completes lander egress tests of the VIPER Moon rover, moving one step closer to the launch of a gear that'll help us find water up there
Saturn's Rings Look Like Light Strips in Amazing Webb Telescope First Infrared Image
4 Jul 2023, 07:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first infrared image of Saturn snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows the gas giant like you've never seen it before
Space Mission Launches in July to Find Out Why the Universe's Expansion Is Gaining Speed
30 Jun 2023, 09:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Europeans Space Agency and NASA will launch the Euclid telescope next month using a SpaceX rocket, it will look at Universe expansion
NASA Closer to Finding Ways of Storing and Moving Energy on the Moon
30 Jun 2023, 08:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced this week the final four of the Watts on the Moon Challenge which aims to find ways to generate and deliver power on the Moon
Orion Spaceship Can Take Temperatures Half as Hot as the Sun, Heat Shield Has It Covered
30 Jun 2023, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced this week the Orion spaceship which will fly the Artemis II mission got its heat shield, bringing the craft closer to completion
Virgin Galactic's First Commercial Spaceflight Takes Air Force People to the Edge Space
30 Jun 2023, 07:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic successfully concludes what it calls its first commercial spaceflight, company now plans monthly missions to the edge of space
Red Planet Turns Purple, Green and Blue, And It Looks Even More Alien
27 Jun 2023, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA shares two images of Mars snapped by the MAVEN spacecraft, we get to see the alien world in colors so strange for the Red Planet
Space Agency Settles on Spacesuit Design, Won’t Actually Fly Them to Space
27 Jun 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency announced it decided on five winning designs for a possible future spacesuit for its own needs.
Virgin Galactic's First Commercial Spaceflight Will Have Air Force Pros On Board
26 Jun 2023, 11:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic made public the names of the people who will go to space as part of the company's first commercial mission.
SpaceX Starts Using Second-Generation Starlink Constellation to Beam Internet Data
21 Jun 2023, 14:04 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / SpaceX notified the FCC that it started beaming internet data from its second-generation Starlink constellation it built in the past months
This Is How Galactic Light Sounds Like, Space Music Is Surprisingly Good
21 Jun 2023, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases three new audio recordings based on visual data coming from space telescopes, gives galactic light a 'voice" we can hear
Spaceship With Asteroid Bits Is Getting Closer, NASA Preps Army of Scientists to Handle It
21 Jun 2023, 11:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-REx spaceship is on track to deliver bits of asteroid Bennu to Earth this fall, NASA is making the finishing touches to handle them
Virgin Galactic to Start Civilian Astronauts Ops in August, Monthly Flights Planned
20 Jun 2023, 12:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic may fly its first commercial mission later in June, but true civilian astronauts operations will only begin in August
This Is How Sunrise and Sunset Look Like on Mars, But Not Quite
16 Jun 2023, 11:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA gets creative with a couple of images sent back by the Curiosity rover, gives us a glimpse of the Martian sunrise and sunset
Building Block for DNA Discovered for the First Time Off-Earth, Saturn Moon Has It
15 Jun 2023, 11:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A team looking at data sent back by the Cassini spacecraft from Saturn says it found evidence the moon has an abundance of phosphorus, crucial for life to exist
Tech Mimicking How Plants Works Could Be Used to Make Oxygen on the Moon and Mars
13 Jun 2023, 14:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A group of European experts are working to mimic plant photosynthesis as a way to generate oxygen on alien worlds, including the Moon and Mars
Solar Thermal Propulsion and a Gravity Well Dive Could Take a Spaceship Outside Sol
13 Jun 2023, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A researcher from the Los Alamos National Lab has an idea to use a "combined heat shield and solar thermal propulsion system for an Oberth maneuver"
High Expansion Ratio Structures Could Be the Secret to Artificial Gravity in Space
12 Jun 2023, 14:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program study called HERDS envisions an easier way of building massive structures in space
Spartan Hypersonic Scramjet Engine Reveals More of Its Secrets Before Inaugural Flight
12 Jun 2023, 13:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Australian aerospace company Hypersonix said it received a technology demonstrator of the Spartan scramjet engine made in Europe
Project Orion Was a Nuclear Bomb-Powered Starship, Here It Is Going Off in CGI
12 Jun 2023, 11:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Project Orion was meant to create in the 1950s and 1960s a nuclear pulse propulsion spaceship that could one day turn into an interstellar ark