The World’s First Nuclear-Powered Satellite Just Launched On A SpaceX Rocket
Florida-based City Labs has launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital HighReliability) — the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and first…
On this day in space! July 11, 1979: NASA’s abandoned Skylab space station falls to Earth
On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it…
Mauritius spent more than 40 years removing invasive rats, cats and goats from its offshore islands, helping endangered seabirds return after decades | World News
Off the coast of Mauritius sit a string of small, mostly uninhabited islands that once told a very…
Is the Universe Getting Bigger?
The universe is bigger now than it was when you started reading this sentence. Every distant galaxy is…
Elon Musk on thousands of SpaceX employees becoming millionaires: I have always had the philosophy that …
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX says that the company’s blockbuster valuation has likely minted thousands of employee…
Phew! 8 times astronauts diced with death and got away with it – showing just how dangerous spaceflight really is
Exploring space has always been a risky endeavour – even the very first human spaceflight, by Yuri Gagarin…
The rivers on Titan flow, pool into lakes and are fed by rainfall on a slow cycle much like our own, but the liquid is methane and the ground beneath it is water frozen hard as stone
The Huygens probe, dropped from the Cassini orbiter in January 2005, parachuted through an orange smog and photographed…
The Sky Today on Sunday, July 12: Titan sits near Saturn
Back to Article List The ringed planet’s largest — and brightest — moon lingers near its parent world…
China has a new challenge for Elon Musk as Chinese space company joins SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to successfully land a rocket booster
China is not only in the AI arms race with the US but it is also competing with…
Here’s Why Some Humans Can Hear Super Low-Frequency Sounds
If you’ve ever experienced a feeling of unease in a spooky building at night, it might be caused…
Rice and NASA Launch Open-source Remote Space Robotics Simulator
Insider Brief Rice University and NASA Johnson Space Center launched an open-source simulator for developing robots that could…
India excavates a 28 km artificial lake in the Thar Desert, lines the bottom with a giant plastic sheet to prevent 1.41 million tons of water from disappearing into the sand, and attempts to supply 5 million people throughout the year.
In the Thar Desert, a 28-kilometer artificial reservoir uses plastic lining to store water from the Indira Gandhi…