NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flight on Mars opens up new frontiers in space exploration
Apr 22, 2021 05:41 am UTC| Science
History has been made on Mars: NASAs Ingenuity helicopter just achieved the first powered and controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity is a small, lightweight, drone-like helicopter that was carried on the...
Feb 20, 2021 12:10 pm UTC| Science
NASAs Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars this morning, and has already begun beaming back images. But people might be surprised to learn there have been another 48 missions to the red planet so far. Of...
SpaceX's Starlink satellites are about to ruin stargazing for everyone
Nov 18, 2020 03:28 am UTC| Science
I walk outside my rural Saskatchewan house before dawn and look up, expecting to have my breath taken away by the sheer number of stars overhead. Im a professional astronomer, but I still appreciate naked-eye stargazing as...
How to live in space: what we've learned from 20 years of the International Space Station
Nov 02, 2020 09:13 am UTC| Science
November 2 marks 20 years since the first residents arrived on the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiting habitat has been continuously occupied ever since. Twenty straight years of life in space makes the ISS...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx will land on an asteroid to bring home rocks and dust – if it can avoid Mt. Doom
Oct 20, 2020 13:56 pm UTC| Science
Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On Oct. 20, a University of Arizona-led NASA mission 16 years in the making will attempt the astronomical...
Private companies are launching a new space race – here's what to expect
Oct 08, 2017 10:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The space race between the USA and Russia started with a beep from the Sputnik satellite exactly 60 years ago (October 4, 1957) and ended with a handshake in space just 18 years later. The handshake was the start of many...
Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles
Oct 02, 2017 05:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Elon Musk has a plan, and its about as audacious as they come. Not content with living on our pale blue dot, Musk and his company SpaceX want to colonize Mars, fast. They say theyll send a duo of supply ships to the red...
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