Covering space technology and space travel news including new discoveries about our universe. Space is truly the new frontier and with SpaceX leading the way in commercial space flight we are seeing a renewal of the space race of the 1960s. It’s an exciting time to be tracking the development of space programs and the new tech that may soon see us reach Mars and beyond!
Astronomy is also advancing rapidly with modern technology as we look to the stars for answers to our own existence and revealing the awesome beauty of the universe.
Universe Today - Report by Nancy Atkinson It’s really happening. The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully reached its orbital destination in space, 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from Earth. A final 5-minute thruster firing on January 24, 2022 put JWST in its...
Valiant Space has been awarded a $200,000 grant as part of the Australian Government’s Moon to Mars initiative, administered through the Australian Space Agency. The Demonstrator Feasibility grant will allow the company to develop Australia’s first in-space chemical...
As NASA seeks to build a lunar outpost, visit Mars and commercialize spaceflight, the long-term effects of weightlessness on the human heart are of critical importance, according to researchers. By analyzing data from astronaut Scott Kelly’s year in space and...
We sat down with Bryan Greenham and Andrew Uscinski to find out a bit about the space start up Valiant Space. Here's a bit of an extended interview with them...
by Elizabeth Neil (Cover image courtesy Gilmour Space) It seems the Australian Government has its eyes on the skies but feet firmly on the ground as it announced a 10-year roadmap dedicated to Australia’s aerospace sector. However, as our planet is in the midst of a...
“This could well be the first Australian payload to be launched to orbit on an Australian rocket, from an Australian launch site.” - Adam Gilmour, CEO of Gilmour Space. Homegrown rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has secured the first Australian...
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars. Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope...
In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team persevered. Working together across five time zones, they successfully designed a hybrid rocket engine that uses paraffin and a novel nitrous oxide-oxygen mixture called...
An SUV-size space rock flew past our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded asteroid survey as it departed. Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for...
Finally! SpaceX Starship Prototype SN5 Flies Just Over 150 Meters Into the Air By Fraser Cain - Universe Today On Tuesday, August 4th, ground crews at the SpaceX launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, accomplished a major milestone. After 11 months of prototyping,...
