We may be a number of years off the first humans walking on Mars, but NASA plans to give us a sneak peek at what it may be like to walk on the Red Planet. Their new exhibit, ...
March 31, 2016 at 2:00 pm by Alexander Neil
That NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory, named Eagleworks, have been working on an electromagnetic propulsion drive is nothing new, however, it is far from ...
March 27, 2016 at 5:00 pm by Alexander Neil
When sending something into space, it is important to consider how big it is. Something large may be useful in space, but it is no good if it can’t be carried up there ...
March 26, 2016 at 11:30 pm by Alexander Neil
For the first time ever, astronomers have recorded the moment at which a star started to explode – known as the “shock breakout” – within the optical wavelength of ...
March 22, 2016 at 7:30 pm by Ashley Allen
The date of SpaceX’s next resupply mission to the ISS has been announced by NASA to take place on April 8th. SpaceX will be delivering the cargo onboard one of their ...
March 19, 2016 at 1:20 pm by Alexander Neil
The dwarf planet on the edge of our Solar System, Pluto, is one of the most enigmatic and unknown to us. Now, a newly published report based on data taken by the New Horizons ...
March 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Alexander Neil
NASA are fully invested in the development of craft that is capable of achieving supersonic speeds in a way more subtle than the typical sonic boom. Having already invested ...
March 13, 2016 at 7:04 pm by Alexander Neil
The human race can do amazing things, we’ve discovered how the universe works, figured out the theory of black holes and even set foot on the Moon. With plans ahead to ...
March 6, 2016 at 10:40 am by Gareth Andrews
In a bid to develop a plane that could fly over land at supersonic speeds without disturbing those on the ground, NASA has awarded $20 million to Lockheed Martin to develop ...
March 1, 2016 at 9:40 pm by Alexander Neil
Earlier this month, the discovery of the gravitational waves shook the scientific community as it confirmed one of Einstein’s theories that it took us a century to ...
February 26, 2016 at 10:30 am by Alexander Neil
Living in space faces many challenges, such as the availability of critical spare parts. Supply trips to the ISS are somewhat uncommon, so getting a replacement part for a ...
February 24, 2016 at 11:00 am by Alexander Neil
Since it was launched in low Earth orbit in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been proving us with crucial information about space and time, and it even helped determine ...
February 21, 2016 at 6:30 pm by Cernescu Andrei
Astronomers from NASA and ESA have, for the first time, been able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet that is classified as a ‘Super-Earth’. Exoplanet 55 ...
February 19, 2016 at 9:20 am by Alexander Neil
The German scientists behind the intrepid Rosetta space mission have given up hope of re-establishing communications with its Philae lander. The probe, which landed on comet ...
February 14, 2016 at 5:18 pm by Ashley Allen
This Friday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be launching their new X-Ray observatory satellite into space, where it will observe space phenomena such as ...
February 12, 2016 at 10:00 am by Alexander Neil
