NASA Offers $400 Million to Help Private Companies Create New Space Stations

SPACE 03.29.2021 01:26 AM

NASA awards up to $400 million total to up to several private aerospace companies to develop private space stations.

Hubble Space Galaxy Shares Photo of Peculiar Galaxy and Earth-Like Exoplanet

03.29.2021 00:55 AM

Hubble Space Telescope discovered a rocky exoplanet with a ‘secondary’ atmosphere and another galaxy located in the Pegasus constellation.

Satellite Light Pollution Is Worsening, Disrupting Naked-Eye Observers and Astronomers

03.28.2021 22:15 PM

A new analysis reveals that no place on Earth is spared from experiencing satellite light pollution that disrupts naked-eye and astronomical observations.

Mars Olympus Mons Volcano: Why This Massive Landform Remains a Mystery

03.28.2021 21:55 PM

The history of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system located in Mars, remains a mystery for many experts.

Spacex Starship Launch: Elon Musk Gives Update on SN11 Flight

03.28.2021 20:29 PM

The first test flight of the Starship prototype SN11 has been delayed until at least Monday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced.

NASA Orion Spacecraft Successfully Completes First Water Drop Test

03.28.2021 00:20 AM

NASA has successfully completed the first water drop test for the Orion spacecraft, which will carry astronauts to the Moon and beyond as a part of the Artemis missions.

Starlink vs OneWeb Space Satellite: What's The Difference? Which Offers Faster Internet?

03.27.2021 22:41 PM

OneWeb and SpaceX Starlink are sending numerous satellites in low Earth orbit that provide internet service to anywhere on Earth from space.

South Korea Wants to Land Rockets on Moon by 2030

03.27.2021 20:51 PM

President Moon Jae-in of South Korea plans to put a robotic lander on the moon by 2030 through a South Korean rocket.

Indian Businessman Buys Land on the Moon as a Gift for Infant Son

03.26.2021 22:29 PM

An Indian businessman continued a local trend of buying land on the Moon, which he did for his newborn son.

Falcon 9 Rocket Debris Creates Light Show Over Pacific Northwest Sky

03.26.2021 21:36 PM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 4 has failed to do a deorbit burn. It re-entered the Earth's orbit on March 25 and created a light show over the Pacific Northwest sky.

NASA Offers Award for Ideas on Nutritious, Delicious Space Food System for Interplanetary Travel

03.26.2021 21:18 PM

NASA food scientists seek an ideal space food system that will offer delicious and nutritious meals for astronauts in long-duration interplanetary missions.

OneWeb Sends Another 36 Broadband Internet Satellites Into Space

03.26.2021 07:41 AM

British counterpart of SpaceX, OneWeb, has recently sent another 36 satellite broadbands into space aboard the Soyuz rocket from Russia to bring internet coverage to the UK.

4G Network on the Moon: NASA and Nokia Sign Deal to Make It Possible

03.25.2021 23:16 PM

NASA awarded Bell Labs of Nokia a $14.1-billion contract to develop cell towers on the moon. In 2020, NASA awarded Bell Labs of Nokia a contract amounting to $14.

ULA Obtains Military Launch Contract Awards In Time of Billion-Dollar Military Satellite Arrival

03.25.2021 21:20 PM

A billion-dollar military satellite arrives at Cape Canaveral for ULA launch after winning a military launch contract.

'Spiders From Mars’: Scientists Use Dry Ice to Recreate Occurrence on Red Planet’s Surface

03.25.2021 03:24 AM

Recently discovered is new physical evidence akin to spiders that can be explained through CO2 ice's sublimation, and they seem to be carved into the surface when the dry ice is changing from solid to gas in the Martian spring.