NASA’s Perseverance rover breaks the record for longest road trip on Mars
To celebrate this out-of-this-world achievement, we’re going to take a quick look at the history of this record…
Nuclear propulsion: Could nuclear engines transform deep-space exploration?
As space exploration technologies accelerate, an engine that can traverse deep space equally fast is needed- and nuclear…
Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever
How are planets born, and how do they grow? This is an essential question in astronomy, one that…
New center boosts nuclear isotope output for deep-space missions
Canada is moving to expand its role in supplying nuclear isotopes that could power spacecraft on long-duration missions.…
New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth’s Atmosphere as Fuel To Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
Fully Assembled RF Helicon-based Plasma Thruster. Credit: F. Romano A satellite engine that uses atmospheric gases as fuel…
UAE prioritises satellites as strategic space asset
Over the past decade, regional governments have substantially increased their investment in the space sector, with space budgets…
People think Earth dies when the Sun becomes a red giant in five billion years — the more likely end is a billion years from now, when a star already 30 percent brighter than at birth pushes CO₂ too low for C3 plants, then a moist greenhouse strips the oceans of hydrogen and leaves a sterile Venus
The Sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old and about halfway through its main-sequence lifetime. The popular conception…
Looking to the stars: Planetarium Negara seeks to inspire a new generation of space explorers
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 — As mankind looks towards the wider solar system, Planetarium Negara is seeing renewed public…
Australia India Space Partnership: Our island terminal will help India’s Gaganyaan programme in mission communication, 8 MoUs signed between two sides during space expo: Australian Space Agency chief
File photo: Enrico Palermo, head, Australian Space Agency NEW DELHI: Australia’s partnership with India has recently expanded into…
Chinese scientists boost hydrogen fuel cell power fourfold with new design
Chinese scientists have developed a way to generate a fourfold increase in power output of hydrogen fuel cells,…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to unlock the dark universe
image: ©NASA/John Kraus NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey into space The Nancy Grace…
NASA Finds Earth Microbes Could Hide in the Moon’s Deep Shadows
Shadows near the Moon’s south pole may create temporary refuges where microbes carried by astronauts can withstand otherwise…