Space Commercialization Is Making Asteroid Mining a Real Thing
It’s been more than sixty years since the first space mission on October 4, 1957, by Soviet Russia, when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched into space. Four years…
NASA’s Lunas Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes Decade on Moon
Among the dozens of spacecraft that have landed on the moon, none can come close to the period of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which just lately completed a decade studying the sibling…
China Sends High-resolution Satellite Capable of Providing Stereo Imagery
China launched a brand new high-decision remote sensing satellite capable of offering stereoscopic imagery on Sunday, state-run media stated, marking another vital step as Beijing seeks to cut reliance on…
NASA Updates Astronauts Wardrobe with New Spacesuits for Future Missions
NASA Tuesday revealed two new spacesuits tailored for future moonwalking astronauts, signaling the development of a crucial element to the space agency’s accelerated push to return to the moon by…
Astronomers Find Largest Neutron Star in Space
Astronomers have found the largest example yet of the dead stars often called neutron stars, one virtually too massive to exist, new research finds. Neutron stars are corpses of stars that died…
Astronomers Try to Decode Unusual X-Ray Pattern Coming from Space
Astronomers have located a rare pattern in the X-ray bursts coming from a neutron-star system no more than 16,300 light-years away. That star system, MAXI J1621−501, first turned up on…
Scientists Synthesize Neural Network of Human Brain to Map Phytoplankton
Scientists copied the neural networks of the brain to map phytoplankton types in the Mediterranean Sea. A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Analysis: Oceans showed a new…
ESA Demands Better Space Traffic Rules After Avoided Collison with SpaceX Satellite
SpaceX has launched the first few dozen of what will ultimately become a swarm of thousands of satellites. A few days ago, the ESA needed to perform the first-ever satellite…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launches Amoz-17 Satellite for Spacecom
SpaceX sent a communications satellite for Israeli satellite controller Spacecom Aug. 6 on an expendable Falcon 9 task. The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida…
SpaceX Starhopper Completes First Free Flying Test
Starhopper, the rocket completed its first free-flying test hop at SpaceX’s Boca Chica showing ground in South Texas late Thursday, one day after a vulnerability forced it to cancel an…