By this time next year,Mars will be abuzz with robotic activities. That’s because three space agencies from three different countries are aiming at Marsthis month. The US,China and the United Arab Emirates all plan...
No other planet has captivated our imaginationsquite like Mars. While inhospitable now, billionsof years ago, the landscape of this dustyrock was similar to that of Earth, but somewherealong the way, it became a red...
Though this year has been tough but it hasbeen a very major year for space explorationsand missions. A lot of major breakthroughsoccurred this year. No one would have believedthat a private company would send...
so it appears that the launch of NASA’sperseverance Rover has been delayedagain this is getting a bit too closefor our taste now because the launchwindow is only one month wide andChina’s Mars mission meanwhile...
Hi I’m Kelsea Brennan-Wesselsand welcome back to Earth from Spaceon the European Space Agency Web TV. The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellitetakes us over northern Brazil on 22 August 2017,where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic...
– SpaceX is the most well known namein the private spaceflight industryand needs little introduction. It was founded by dotcombillionaire Elon Musk in 2002,with the goal of makinghumanity multi-planetary. They have repeatedly madeambitious development...
– Come to share with us brieflythe vision of Blue Origin,and the idea of kind of a space tourismwith renewable rockets. – This is super important to me,and I believe on the longesttime frame,...
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Was Venus once a tropical oasis?Did it once have LIFE?Well, if it did, it doesn’t any more becauseit’s a HELLHOLE. Hello fellow terrestrial lifeforms!Trace here for DNews and I want you to considerVenus. Apparently...
– Deep within the acid clouds above Venus,astronomers have detected something new,a gas that could be a sign of life. The gas is phosphine, a toxic moleculewith an odor of garlic and dead fish....
CLARA SOUSA-SILVA: Findingsigns of life on other planetsbeyond the Earth would be away of answering the biggestquestions that we’vehad as a species so far. Where do we come from?Are we alone?Of course these questionsare...
If we’re ever going to explore and eventuallycolonize the galaxy, we’re going to needfunctioning propulsion systems to do it. This goes for the nearest star, or the otherside of the Milky Way. So here...
Today’s episode, the Spaceship PropulsionCompendium, is going to be a long one, sinceI am going to try to touch at least brieflyon every system including some of the moreunlikely ones. I will leave out...
There’s been all kinds of buzz lately aboutsome new space tech that could send a spacecraftto Mars in 3 days, and maybe even get spaceshipsto exoplanets that are light-years away. Which kind of sounds...
People always ask me why we’re stuck withchemical rockets. Seriously, exploding a bunch of hydrogen orkerosene is the best we can do?Good news, there are other, exotic sciencefiction-sounding propulsion systems out therewhich use electromagnetic...
Since the dawn of the space age, in the middleof the 20th century, we’ve sent unmannedprobes all over the solar system, which havegiven us some incredible images of the planetsand moons that are part...
About 4. 3 light-years from Earth lies ourclosest stellar neighborhood. The Alpha Centauri system consists of threeknown stars. Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B area binary pair, which meansthey orbit a common center...
Our lonely patch of the sky just got alittle less lonely with theidentification of a rocky, Earth-sizedplanet neighboring the star closest to our own Sun. On August 24th, 2016,researchers announced the exciting news:that they...
