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.
Since it’s founding in 2004, Virgin Galactic have been set on designing and operating spacecraft capable of suborbital flight. While the organisation has revealed and tested many concepts over the years, fully orbital spacecraft haven’t been at the forefront of their...
Since it’s announcement, SpaceX’s Starlink program has drawn the attention of many. The plan to put hundreds of broadband satellites into orbit could potenially provide internet reception to those in remote areas, where conventional methods of broadband connection are...
Even as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, lies dormant within a telescope dome on a mountaintop in Arizona, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DESI project has moved forward in reaching the final formal approval milestone prior to startup. DESI is...
Congratulations SpaceX, NASA, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley for your successful launch today! What an amazing day for the American space program and our continuing adventures into space. All the best for the rest of the mission! Watch the launch at...
FROM THE ARCHIVES Psychological Impacts of a Journey to Mars by Todd Hatcher
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Changes affecting vision and the intracranial compartment is looked at by a new study.
30 years ago on 24th of April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in a low earth orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery. Since then the Hubble has delivered a remarkable view of the universe, both for astronomers and the general public. Every year the Hubble...
A team of scientists at the Israel Institute of Technology may have proven a way to a ‘kill’ a black hole - something once thought almost impossible. The idea that black holes could essentially die dates back to the 1970s, when Stephen Hawking first theorised that...
Elon Musk, CEO and Lead Designer at SpaceX, presents the updated design for the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), the powerful rocket intended to propel a newly modified space vehicle to the International Space Station and beyond to fulfill his vision for establishing a human presence on Mars.
