Space Junk
NASA Is On a Mission to Remind Us All Our Sun Is Just Another Star
21 Aug 2024, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Full-sun Ultraviolet Rocket SpecTrograph (FURST) sounding rocket instrument will give us the first high-resolution spectra of the Sun in vacuum ultraviolet
NASA Looking to Establish a Logistics System on the Moon, Trash Management Included
20 Aug 2024, 10:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is asking the space industry's help to come up with ideas for a logistics system on the Moon to serve the needs of the future human presence there
First Supermoon of 2024 Coming to the Sky Above You on August 19, They Call It Blue Moon
16 Aug 2024, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first of four consecutive supermoons this year will occur on August 19, it's the Blue Moon that will light up the sky
Space Missions Will Require Cold Storage of Fuel for Months, NASA Pays for Good Ideas
15 Aug 2024, 10:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The second year of the NASA Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) program will focus on solutions for long-term cold storage of fuel
SpaceX To Fly Four Civilians Over Our Planet's Poles in First-of-Its-Kind Mission
13 Aug 2024, 11:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company SpaceX announced its sixth private mission to space. It's called Fram2 and it will take humans over the poles for the first time
World's First Microgravity Space Station Sheds a Few More of Its Secrets
2 Aug 2024, 10:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Vast released a few more details on the Haven-1 Lab space station it plans to send into orbit in 2025
NASA Goes Full Steam Ahead With On-Demand Streaming Service Called NASA+
31 Jul 2024, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it will place all its weight behind the NASA+ on-demand streaming service, drops cable and over-the-air
Sierra Space’s Next-Gen Space Station Will Be an Absolute Beast, Passes Crucial Trial
26 Jul 2024, 03:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At NASA's Marshall Flight Center in Alabama, Sierra Space's 20-foot tall test article completed the 7th in a series of crucial structure integrity tests.
Rolls-Royce Is Making a Nuclear Reactor to Power the Moon
25 Jul 2024, 07:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / British aerospace company Rolls-Royce says it secured a 4.8 million pounds ($6.2 million) award from the UK Space Agency to advance its micro nuclear reactor
NASA Floods Launch Pad 39B with 400K Gallons of Water, Tests Liquid Shield for Artemis II
22 Jul 2024, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA says it has completed the tests for the water suppression system that will be used at launch pad 39B during the Artemis II launch
Shooting Stars to Rain Down on Earth at a Rate of Hundreds per Hour on August 11
19 Jul 2024, 14:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Earth has already begun crossing the debris trail of comet Swift-Tuttle, the Perseids will manifest themselves at the fullest on the night of August 11
This Is Where NASA Thinks It Will Find Water on the Moon
19 Jul 2024, 11:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Intuitive Machines and space agency NASA settled on where to land the PRIME-1 water hunting tool on the Moon
Missy Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" Is Now an Interplanetary Hit, Reached Venus
18 Jul 2024, 14:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA says it broadcast in the direction of Venus its first-ever hip-hop song, Missy Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
City in Arizona Goes Galactic, Virgin to Make New Type of Spaceship in Mesa From Q1 2025
16 Jul 2024, 06:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private space company Virgin Galactic announced the facility where it plans to build its next fleet of spaceships is ready for duty
Hubble Finds Signs of the Missing Link of Black Holes 17,000 Light Years From Home
15 Jul 2024, 10:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new space study based on older images captured by the Hubble telescope reveal signs of an intermediate-mass black hole in the Omega Centauri star cluster
Breadbox Shuttle Made Rockets Heading to Space Look Like School Kids With a Backpack
5 Jul 2024, 12:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A space shutlle concept imagined back in the 1970s by Rockwell would have turned the space shuttle into a sort of flying breadbox
Two Asteroids Just Flew by Earth, Huge One Had a Moon in Tow
5 Jul 2024, 09:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA revealed that it stumbled upon not one, but two asteroids that passed by Earth in late June, no danger detected
China Gets Its Hands on Exactly 4.26 Pounds of Moon No One Has Ever Seen Before
3 Jul 2024, 13:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The China National Space Administration (CNSA) said the total weight of the samples brought back from the far side of the Moon is 4.26 pounds, or 1,935.30 grams
NASA Picks SpaceX to Haul ISS to Its Tomb, Gets Nearly $1 Billion to Do It
27 Jun 2024, 18:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Elon Musk's SpaceX will get the call to bring the ISS back home safely. Well, safely for all of us, not the station itself.
Starliner Astronauts Fly the Ship by Hand With Amazing Skill, Then They Go to Sleep
6 Jun 2024, 06:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carried the Boeing Starliner spaceship and a crew of two into orbit, manual flying skills were displayed