Russian Cargo Ship Docks With Space Station – 28th July 2013
Recent docking of an unmanned Russian supply craft, Progress 52, with the International Space Station.
Recent docking of an unmanned Russian supply craft, Progress 52, with the International Space Station.
A new portable atomic clock is set to revolutionize space navigation. Current clocks are earth based but the new clock will be spacecraft based. A JPL scientist explains how the advantages of the new...
A short video on the NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster or NEXT. An ion propulsion system that when operational will allow extending the reach of NASA science missions and yielding a higher return on scientific research.
Stephen Hawking speaking to Larry King in September 2010 on his book the ‘The Grand Design’. He also talks about the human race destroying itself out of greed and stupidity and the necessity for...
A look at the once mighty Russian space programme from the 1930s to 1991 at the collapse of the Soviet Union. Recently the Russian space programme has received funding for many new projects and...
An animation of a proposed mission to capture a near Earth asteroid and bring it back to the Earth/Moon system for exploration. NASA’s 2014 budget proposal includes a plan to capture a small near-Earth...
A look at how to calculate or navigate your way back home from Interstellar space. By calculation the motion, speed and direction of travel of earth through space.
A recent update from NASA. Which includes a report on the leaky space suit and the discovery of a new moon of Neptune.
Saturn’s moon Titan is covered with lakes full of liquid hydrocarbons. We know there is wind on Titan but these lakes don’t seem to have any waves. This video looks at various explanations as...
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system’s tail, called the heliotail BEX is the first spacecraft designed to collect data across the entire sky about the heliosphere...
How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what’s beyond them? Astronomers have been able to look back to near the time of its birth. They’ve reconstructed the course of cosmic history...
Cosmology has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the Universe is flying apart in all directions at an ever-increasing rate. Is the universe bursting at the seams? Or is nature somehow...
Alan Bond, chief engineer at Reaction Engines, talks about the Skylon reaction engine and its potential ability to allow travel to anywhere on Earth in 4 hours. Skylon plane is set to transform travel...
Incredible 4k supercomputer images of Planet Earth playing now at HD resolution. Great heatmap pictures of our Planet.
The return, on the 26th June, of Shenzhou astronauts after a two week mission. This was the 5th manned space mission, 10 years after its first.
The Electric Universe theory calls into question the distances used in the calculations which show that the ‘Supernova’ explosion was too bright. Gravitational lensing and other phenomena are explained in this video by William...
According to standard theory, the early moments of the universe were marked by the explosive contact between subatomic particles of opposite charge. But what happened to the anti-matter?
Some future interplantary missions may need to occur over generations. Humans were designed to be born and bred in gravity. So what effect does zero g have on human birth and development? Can conception...