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Researchers Blame YouTube For Flat Earth Theorists
YouTube To Blame For Flat Earth Theorists Before I continue, just in case you haven’t come across the Flat Earth theory to date, let me give you a brief rundown as to what it is. Put simply, some people appear to be entirely convinced that despite all evidence to the…
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Video Shows Slow Motion Capture of Space Junk Harpoon
Harpoon Clears up Space Junk For around 70 years now, the human race has been sending a lot of things up into orbit. While this has given us a lot of benefits such as satellites and exploration, it has also caused a pretty significant problem. Namely, that there’s a hell…
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NASA Wants To Return To The Moon Before The End Of 2019
NASA Plans To Return To The Moon With all of the private space projects currently underway it is easy to forget that NASA does still exist. Admittedly, the company has been very much in the backseat of rocketry for the last 15 years. Well, specifically after the Shuttle Columbia broke…
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NASA Abandons Hope for Mars Rover Opportunity
NASA Abandons Hope for Opportunity Rover Last year a pretty significant storm hit Mars and one of the casualties with the Opportunity Rover. While Curiousity managed to escape unscathed, contact was lost with Opportunity. The exact cause was unclear, it was, however, speculated that the storm may have caused the solar…
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Elon Musk Thinks A Ticket To Mars Will Cost Around $500,000
SpaceX Trip To Mars Commercial flights to space are looking likely to form part of practical reality for consumers within the next 5 years. Well, depending on how much money you have at least. Incidentally, at the risk of avoiding a Back To The Future II or Blade Runner prediction…
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UK-Build ‘Prime’ Rocket Design Revealed
Prime Rocket While the UK might have had a hand in the rocket industry over the years, as a country it has largely not been involved in what you might call the manufacturing and ‘blast-off’ phase. It seems, however, that this might be about to change and in the not…
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Elon Musk Reveals Fire-Up Of New Raptor Rocket Engine
Elon Musk Reveals Raptor Rocket Things might have gone a little quiet on the Space X program in recent weeks, but that doesn’t mean to say that nothing is happening. I mean, where Elon Musk is involved, you can be pretty certain that some news will not be far behind.…
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NASA Model Suggests That The Moon Was Once Part Of Earth
NASA Research Suggests The Moon Came From Earth One of the biggest points of speculation surrounding the Moon is exactly how it came to be there. Moons are, of course, not uncommon and we’re certainly more than a little familiar with the one orbiting our planet. In a report via…
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Captain Kirk Asks NASA Question About InSight Photo
NASA InSight Since successfully landing on the surface of Mars in late November, the NASA InSight probe has already been sending a number of remarkable images back to Earth. It seems, however, that one image has caught the attention of someone who is more than a little associated with space.…
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SpaceX Announce 10% Of Staff To Be Made Redundant
SpaceX Axe 10% Of Workforce Over the last year, the SpaceX project has provided some of the most exciting news in the technology world. The company, headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has been making some exciting developments in their rocket technology that makes commercial space travel seem a much…
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Elon Musk Reveals Fully Assembled Starship
Elon Musk Reveals Starship A few weeks ago, Elon Musk revealed that his SpaceX program was currently designing a fully stainless steel coated spacecraft. The concept was quite straight forward, it’s both strong and light which therefore requires less trust to actually get it up in the air. It’s also…
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NASA Releases Clearer, More Detailed Photo of Ultima Thule
New Higher-Resolution Photo from NASA Several hours after releasing the initial photo of the Ultima Thule, NASA has released another, much more clearer photo of the distant object. The snowman-like object is the furthest ever explored by a spacecraft and until yesterday, all photos available of the object were quite…
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NASA New Horizons Vessel Contacts Earth
NASA New Horizons It has been almost 13 years since NASA launched their New Horizons craft. Its mission was rather simple. Go out there and see what you can find! More specifically, the intention is that it may hopefully shed some light as to the origin of our solar system.…
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Elon Musk Reveals Stainless Steel Starship
Stainless Steel Starship 2018 has proven to have been a very busy year for Elon Musk in various regards. You do, of course, have some of the more controversial matters such as his activity on Twitter, there is, however, a lot of positives to take. For example, the Tesla car…
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Virgin Space Ship Successfully Reaches ‘Space’
Virgin Space Ship Successfully Reaches ‘Space’ Between Space X and the Virgin Galactic program, there seems to definitely be something of a space race on our hands. Rather than getting us back to the moon though, the main purpose of these missions is to make a flight into ‘space‘ commercially…
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