First Ever Space Selfie Sells at Auction, It Was Made More Than 50 Years Ago
13 Mar 2015, 14:56 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Probably the most impressive picture for a lot of the people today is the first space selfie taken by Buzz Aldrin. It was taken more than 50 years ago
Toyota’s Space Robot Is Back on Earth
12 Feb 2015, 12:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota's mini robot, Kirobo, recently landed back on Earth in a cargo capsule somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, following to share its data with the scientists
NASA Designed a Submarine to Explore Saturn’s Moon Titan
10 Feb 2015, 11:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Out of all the natural satelites in our solar system, Saturn's Titan is probably the most interesting and it will be visited by NASA in 2040
First Sunlight Sailing Spacecraft To Begin Testing in May
2 Feb 2015, 14:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Space sailing using light is a possible thing and Planetary Society will start testing the new technology starting this May
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
Forget SpaceX, China Wants To Mine the Frigging Moon
19 Jan 2015, 10:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You must be well acquainted with Elon Musk’s SpaceX program that should reduce space traveling costs and put people on Mars. Well, China is here to blow your mind with yet another crazy idea -...
NASA Plans Space Mining in About 30 Years
23 Dec 2014, 15:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Space mining isn’t a new concept and those who ventured on the dark corridors of Dead Space’s USG Ishimura, the biggest planet cracker in her class, know what I’m talking about her...
NASA Wants to Send People to Venus and Fly a Zeppelin There
22 Dec 2014, 13:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yeah, we have plans to colonize Mars a bit in the future, but that’s kinda’ far, reason why the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking towards Venus for a simila...
Lunar Mission One Reaches Funding Target, To Begin Development Program
17 Dec 2014, 17:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Thanks to over 7,000 backers, Kickstarter project Lunar Mission One now has enough money to get things going and launch a robotic probe towards the Moon for the first time since the original Apollo ...
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...
Scientists Made Rocket Fuel Out of Human Waste
27 Nov 2014, 11:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Antoine Lavoisier said once “In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes” and here’s the perfect example to demonstrate that. Scientists managed to turn human...
NASA’s Horizons Spacecraft Waking Up To Meet Pluto and Make History
19 Nov 2014, 16:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Eight years ago, the Atlas V rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the New Horizons spacecraft on top to launch it in a 9.5 year mission to reach Pluto, the smallest, furthest &ldqu...
Elon Musk Targets Internet Satellites Plans, Could Be Launched by SpaceX
8 Nov 2014, 12:37 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / He keeps changing the rules and there is nothing that will stop him from changing the world. Elon Musk’s plans on the electric vehicle industry have proved to be surprisingly smart and functio...
Space Travel To Be Easier Using Synthetic Biology - Mars, Here We Come!
7 Nov 2014, 10:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A 916-day manned mission to Mars, the only planet in our solar system we would like to colonize eventually, will cost billions of dollars as SpaceX founder Elon Musk has estimated. But this could be...
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...
Google’s Vice President Breaks Highest Parachute Jump Record
25 Oct 2014, 18:27 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Alan Eustace, Google’s senior vice president of knowledge, successfully jumped from the edge of space at 135,890 feet (41,420 meters) on Friday evening. The computer scientist remained in free...
Rocket-Balloon Apparatus from zero2infinity Launching Nanosatellites Soon
22 Oct 2014, 15:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Along with technology advancements, our planet’s orbit has started to “grow” more and more artificial satellites, both privately and governmentally owned. Their number will surely ...
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...
Every Sci-Fi Spaceship in One Image: Amazing Comparison Chart
18 Sep 2014, 10:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Although many of us find it insulting to go watch a movie or play a game that inaccurately depicts tiny plane-like spacecraft with artificial gravity or giant vessels passing by with a huge noise in...
This Is How You Ride a Spaceship Back to Earth without Leaving the Planet
8 Sep 2014, 14:56 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / While Elon Musk’s Space X Falcon rocket just lifted off with communications satellite and Virgin Galactic keeps getting reservations, it’s pretty obvious the 21st century is all about sp...