European Space Agency Wants to Cultivate Meat in Space, Won't Replace the Bagged Stuff Yet
3 Nov 2023, 03:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At its core, the basic principles of cultivated meat in space mirror that of the same practice here on Earth for us non-astronauts to eat.
Twin NASA X-Ray Telescopes Snap Tendrils of a Cosmic Space Monster, It's Just a Pulsar
2 Nov 2023, 22:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's because Chandra and IXPE capture X-ray signatures from such vast distances away that we can observe these gusts of pulsar radiation.
NASA’s Juno Probe Detects Potential Organic Compounds on Ganymede, Is It Ancient Life?
2 Nov 2023, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Previous observations of by the Galileo space probe and the Hubble Space Telescope from low-Earth orbit have insinuated the planet was hiding something.
Insane Hydrofoil-Launched Soviet Space Shuttle Comes to Life With CGI
20 Oct 2023, 15:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Like a SpaceX Falcon 9 with wings, the second-stage rocket plane/booster vehicle was engineered to glide back to Earth after deploying the third-stage shuttle.
Straight Outta NASA: 1-of-1 Ford Galaxie Ferried Personnel Around Langley Research Center
10 Oct 2023, 19:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In its day, the fourth-generation Ford Galaxie was something like the era's equivalent to the Mercedes S-Class or BMW 7-Series
Mercedes-Maybach Teams With Carbon Neutral Spaceflight Company to Peer Into the Future
9 Oct 2023, 17:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Dubbed the Spaceship Neptune, the as-yet still-in-development spaceship is the exact opposite of the brash, loud space rockets we've become used to
Here's Why NASA Chose Prada to Design Spacesuites for Artemis, It's Not What You Think
5 Oct 2023, 15:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, what's easy to misidentify as a direct partnership between Prada and NASA is a three-party affair that also involves the Houston-based Axiom Space.
NASA's LRO Snaps Mosaic of Lunar Crater Deeper Than the Grand Canyon
24 Sep 2023, 05:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At some point in the distant past, an assuredly vast piece of unknown space debris impacted the Moon at the modern-day site of Shackleton Crater. U
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Drag Races Through Coronal Explosion, Lives to Collect Data
20 Sep 2023, 16:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A careful study of the data the Parker Solar Probe collected during the incident seems to comport with a research paper published in 2003.
Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?
18 Sep 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It might be difficult not to write off Pulsar Fusion's operation as little more than weapons-grade ambition. But their founder and CEO seems dead set.
JWST Detects Molecule on Exoplanet That’s Only Made by Life, Is It the Smoking Gun?
18 Sep 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By non-astrophysicist standards, K2-18 b is a peculiar exoplanet. One roughly 8.6 times the size of Earth by the latest measurements.
NASA Finishes Oxygen Production Experiment on the Surface of Mars: No, It’s Not Alchemy
14 Sep 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of course, 122 grams of oxygen might not sound like anything impressive. But before you downplay the scale of the achievement, consider this.
FAA Wraps Up SpaceX Starship Explosion Investigation, Demands Corrections Are Made
10 Sep 2023, 20:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In their report, the FAA cited several different factors that directly contributed to the first test-worthy Starship vehicle to turn into a fireworks display.
Martin Marietta's Spacemaster Shuttle Concept Was Bonkers, Comes to Life on YouTube
8 Sep 2023, 20:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Martin Marietta had every intention of building a fleet of Spacemaster orbiters had the program gotten the green light from NASA over other companies.
Pragyan: The Plucky Indian Moon Rover That Deserves Your Respect
5 Sep 2023, 02:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A product of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the Chandrayaan-3 mission was far from the first attempt at an Indian presence in deep space.
NASA's LRO Spots Crater Where Russia's Luna 25 Probe Went Splat
2 Sep 2023, 17:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Using impact-site coordinates published by Roscosmos themselves, NASA's LRO could pinpoint and precisely pinpoint the location of Russia's doomed lunar probe.
India Beats Russia to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3 Probe Lands at the Lunar South Pole
23 Aug 2023, 14:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Chandrayaan-3 probe was launched out of Satish Dhawan Space Centre off the Bay of Bengal on Jul 14th of this year and had been scouting since Aug 5th.
Russian Space Agency Humiliates Itself, Luna 25 Crashes Into the Moon
20 Aug 2023, 17:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For the moment, the follow-up Luna 26 mission flown in tandem with the Chinese Chang'e 7 Lunar Polar Orbiter is set to launch in 2027
Northrop Grumman Successfully Tests First Rocket Engine Designed To Lift Off From Mars
16 Aug 2023, 08:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Approved in September 2022, the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission is far and away the most complex, advanced, and intricately sophisticated space mission.
NASA's STEREO-A Probe Buzzes By Earth After 17 Years Studying the Sun
14 Aug 2023, 19:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Based in large part on the observations made by the STEREO probes, NASA scientists hope to estimate the next peak of the solar maximum cycle is about to hit.