NASA confirms first all-female spacewalk later this month
Jessica Baron, PhD NASA has confirmed to CNN that if all goes as planned, the first all-female spacewalk in history will take place on March 29th from the International Space Station. Our first…
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Creating a global plan to manage space traffic
Jamie Morin, the executive director of the Center for Space Policy and Strategy at The Aerospace Corporation, has laid out guidelines for managing space traffic in the latest issue of…
First commercially built and operated American spacecraft docks at ISS
After months of delays, the SpaceX Crew Dragon launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 2nd at 2:49 a.m. EST. This marks the first time in history…
British engineers impale space debris with giant harpoon
Most of us assume that what goes up into space must come down. But in reality, there’s quite a lot of detritus orbiting the Earth. This includes natural debris, such…
Sad news: The moon plants are dead
Well, they might have represented everything the Chinese were able to do before the rest of us in space just yesterday, but now the plants that just sprouted on the…
A plant has sprouted on the moon!
China made history earlier this month by being the first Earthlings to land on the so-called dark side of the moon (the side that never faces Earth). Now they have…
Voyager 2 enters Interstellar Space to accompany its twin, Voyager 1
Noor Imtiaz The interstellar medium is what astrologists call the matter and radiation present between the star systems in a galaxy. Voyager 2 became the second man-made object to have entered interstellar…
NASA is sending worms to space to protect astronauts
Fazeel Ashraf NASA is sending worms in outer space. This might sound like a plot from a Sci-Fi movie, where everything soon goes into disarray, and the worms start eating the astronauts…
NASA believes private companies are ready for outer space
NASA announced this Thursday that it will be working with nine companies to send scientific material into outer space. NASA did not outright demand money in exchange for its services.…
Scientists can now grow weed in space
Thanks to the hard work of engineers at Space Tango, scientists can now grow weed in space. The startup from Lexington Kentucky will be helping scientist grow cannabis plants and…
Opportunity: the Mars rover that went missing has been found
Opportunity, the Mars rover had been out of contact since June 10. It has finally been located after aerial shots of the Mars explorer that appeared online. A massive dust…
Another milestone; Two Japanese robots successfully landed on a moving asteroid
Amnah Fawad Update on Hayabusa2 mission. As a part of a survey, two Japanese robots were sent on an expedition to a moving asteroid named ‘Ryugu’ through Hayabusa2 spacecraft. These two robots…
