NASA Is On A ‘Mission To Touch The Sun’
In a startling announcements cientists unveiled the Parker Solar Probe at a laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, on Monday, where the spacecraft is being prepared to make an unprecedented plunge into the sun's atmosphere. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentSecret Nasa Report Warned Against Mixed Gender Mars Missions
A secret Nasa report concluded that Mars missions should not be undertaken by a mixed gender crew due to the risk of male and female astronauts getting frisky, British astronaut Helen Sharman has claimed. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentElon Musk Wants Humans On Mars Within 9 Years
Well this is what everyone's been waiting for. Speaking at the Astronaut Congress in Adelaide on Friday, tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced plans to land the first human on Mars in 2024. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentNasa Tests ‘Concorde 2’ London To New York In Just 3 Hours
Nasa and Lockheed Martin, who have been developing the craft alongside the US space agency, have ploughed a total of £290 million into the project and believe tests with passengers could begin in 2021. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentHubble Bursting with Starbirth
Compared to the other fundamental forces in the Universe, gravity is fairly weak. Despite this, gravity has an influence over huge distances and is the driving force behind the motions of the most massive objects in the cosmos. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentRapper Wants To Launch Satellite To See If Earth Is Flat
I'd like to launch a scan to see if he's equally balanced in mind as he is with his "Hey Yo's" Anyway, rap artist B.o.B may be about to blow the lid off the "round-Earth conspiracy." Yep, heer we go again with another brainwave! (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentBlack Holes Orbiting Around Each Other Send Off Waves
Albert Einstein didn't like them. Black holes were a bit of an embarrassment, as they compromised his dream of a "rational" nature, that is, natural phenomena that we could describe and quantify with the usual methods of science. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentRussia And US To Build Moon’s First Space Station
Russia and the United States have agreed to cooperate on a Nasa-led programme to build the first lunar space station, which is the anticipated part of a long-term project to send humans to Mars. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentThe Mystery Of Pulsars
Pulsars, those really superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentAustralia To Get National Space Agency, Government Says
Australia could soon have its own space agency, with the Government today announcing a review into Australia's space capabilities. Most developed nations have a space agency, including New Zealand, which announced one last year. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentNASA Honours Woman Who Inspired Movie ‘Hidden Figures’
Katherine Johnson, the mathematician whose calculations influenced some of the most important missions of the space age, on Friday helped Nasa open a new research and development facility that bears her name. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentAustralia Could Take Part Of $330 Billion Space Market
Australia should launch its own satellites to take control of its space data and potentially create a valuable export industry in the process, a leading space and aeronautic engineer says. Here we go again! (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentHistory Group Works to Protect Apollo Landing Sites
The six Apollo moon landing sites are international cultural treasures that deserve protection, a nonprofit organization says. The group, called For All Moonkind, aims to work with space agencies around the world. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentThrift Shop Bargain Hunters Find Rare NASA Flight Suits
Talia Rappa and Skyer Ashworth turned summer bargain shopping at a Titusville Thrift store closeout into the stuf of NASA collectors' legend when they went looking for bargains during the shop last days. (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentNew Mirror-Coating Technology’s Dramatic Telescope Improvements
At UC Santa Cruz, an electrical engineer has teamed up with astronomers to greatly improve telescope mirrors using thin-film technology from the electronics industry.The advantages are dramatic! (more…)
Read MoreLeave a CommentIn-Orbit Manufacturing Will Change Future Missions
3D printing is revolutionary in a lot of ways. Right now, most people can get a little 3D pen, which shoots out melted plastic and lets you draw in 3D. Actual 3D printers are a bit harder to find though. (more…)
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