Google Targets Moon Exploring, Releases Short Documentary
29 Jan 2015, 17:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / About 40 years have passed since humanity visited the Moon, but Google's new project aims sending unmanned spacecrafts there
Here’s How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Crash from Last Week Looked Like
16 Jan 2015, 10:18 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When SpaceX launched its fifth official mission to resupply the International Space Station, last Saturday, everybody watched closely to see if Elon Musk’s plans on reusing the Falcon 9 works....
Elon Musk’s SpaceX 5th Official Mission Partially a Success, Rocket Lands Hard
12 Jan 2015, 09:40 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Ever since the father of Tesla Model S announced his plans to create a cheaper space travel agency, fans around the world have been paying close attention to the program’s every step. Saturday...
Space Travel Radiation Found to Be Less Harmful... Kind Of
9 Dec 2014, 10:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There are a lot of dangers out in space but one of the biggest could be considered the high amount of radiation one could get there during a mission. This happens there because there is no protectiv...
Philae Lander Goes into Hibernation on the Comet, Scientists Call It a Success
15 Nov 2014, 15:20 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Three days ago humankind landed on a Comet for the first time in our existence. A fridge-size lander named Philae deployed from European Space Agency’s space probe Rosetta only to land hours l...
How Big Comet 67P Is Compared to Stuff We Know
13 Nov 2014, 11:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you watch the news, you might have heard that mankind achieved yet another milestone regarding space exploration - we landed a spacecraft on a moving comet. The story from the Armageddon movie ju...
Scientists Have Gathered for Mankind’s First Landing on a Comet: Day 0
12 Nov 2014, 15:52 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The entire world could change starting today as mankind is about to score a first in our history: landing on a comet. After a 10-year mission, Rosetta’s Philae probe is making its first-ever l...
Humanity Is 6 Days Away from Its First Landing on a Comet
6 Nov 2014, 13:57 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / In case you missed those news that actually matter, we’ll remind you that the iconic mission started by the European Space Agency named Rosetta is six days away from its final turning point: l...
NASA’s MAVEN Satellite Sends First Pictures form Mars
26 Sep 2014, 12:50 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After a 10 moth-travel in space, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet Sunday night. Two days later, the Indian Mangalyaan probe also arrived. T...
Boeing and SpaceX Win the $6.8 Billion Race for NASA's Flights
17 Sep 2014, 14:23 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After a pretty tight competition, NASA has decided that Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be the companies to develop the agency’s future two-human spaceflight vehicles. Boeing has won ...
Astronaut Reid Wiseman Shows Amazing Footage of Earth’s Storms
4 Jul 2014, 12:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Remember that NASA astronaut to broadcast the world’s first Twitter Vine with a 6-second never-setting sun time-lapse? Well, Ride Wiseman recently went into a social media spree posting severa...
In Two Years You’ll Fly to The Edge of Space and Back for $75,000
25 Jun 2014, 16:57 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Arizona-based company World View Enterprises has successfully tested a 10% scale model of the future World View system. The huge balloon will gently fly its voyageurs to the edge of space and back, ...
First Vine Video Sent from Outer Space Is Amazing
10 Jun 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman has just made the first step of Vine video-sharing into the final frontier, posting a 6-second time-lapse clip. The beautiful Vine shows a never-setting sun from 240 mile...
Russia’s Plans for 2017 Space Tourism: Trips around the Moon with Soyuz
5 Jun 2014, 11:58 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / While NASA scheduled to launch the first American-made spacecraft in 2017 and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk just unveiling the Dragon V2 shuttle, it seems Russia won’t accept being left behind. ...
Virgin Galactic: One Step Closer to the Edge of Space
2 Jun 2014, 09:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The privately-funded space company owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS (Public Joint Stock Company) have recently signed a key agreement wit...
Elon Musk Unveils SpaceX Dragon V2 Spacecraft
30 May 2014, 10:22 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Tesla's CEO, billionaire Elon Musk, has just unveiled SpaceX's newest product, the Dragon V2. Designed to be an reusable spacecraft able to transport astronauts into space and back to Eart...
Peugeot Offers Space Travel as a Competition Prize
19 May 2011, 07:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / One small step for man, one giant leap of the imagination for Peugeot’s marketing team, as the company becomes the first car manufacturer in the UK to offer space travel as a competition prize...
Space... Top Gear's Final Frontier
11 Feb 2009, 13:45 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / We knew it will be a time when space travel will be as ordinary as flights over the ocean but we couldn't have possibly imagined that time is closer than ever. Oh well, at least closer than eve...