Elon Musk wants to send a million people to Mars, and would love to see that happen before he dies. But what will we feed them? Since 2014, NASA has been busy studying the development of different types of plants on the space station. Using a special plant-growth chamber, called Veggie, the agency is trying […]
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The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that its ExoMars rover would not fly this year. The mission, a collaboration with the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), was set to launch this summer. However, the launch has been postponed to 2022 due to technical issues and the logistical impact due to the global Conoavirus outbreak. “This is […]
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Elon Musk has a major goal: to get humanity to Mars before he dies. A lofty goal that he reiterated before a crowd on Monday at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington D.C. “If we don’t improve our pace of progress, I’m definitely going to be dead before we go to Mars,” Musk said to […]
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NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet, tasked with one major goal: to assess the habitability of Mars. The rover landed in Gale Crater in 2012. The 96-mile-wide (154 km) crater was once the site of an ancient lake. Curiosity has returned evidence that not was this once a freshwater oasis, but it […]
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NASA’s next Mars rover will depart Earth in July, bound for the red planet. After landing in Feb. of next year, the six-wheeled rover will explore its surroundings. Initially dubbed as Mars 2020 as a nod to its launch date, the rover has just received an official name: Perseverance. As part of a nationwide contest, […]
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NASA’s Curiosity rover is quite the photographer. As most Americans were busy chowing down on their favorite Thanksgiving dinner, the six-wheeled robotic explorer was beefing up its portfolio, creating one epic panorama in the process. “While many on our team were at home enjoying turkey, Curiosity produced this feast for the eyes,” Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project […]
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Earth has a new companion: a mini-moon called 2020 CD3. On Feb. 15, scientists discovered a small rocky chunk that was captured by our planet’s gravity. But don’t get too excited, because it’s likely only a temporary fixture. Our planet has only one natural satellite, our moon, but for the last couple of years, there’s […]
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Astra, a stealthy aerospace startup operated out of Alameda, CA, emerged from the shadows last month as it attempted to capture a coveted prize: a $12 million launch challenge from DARPA. The challenge? To build a rocket capable of launching small military satellites from anywhere in the US with very little notice. About two years […]
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NASA’s InSight lander has spent the last year listening to the deep rumble of the red planet’s interior. And its first batch of data is in. The stationary lander found out that Mars’ magnetic field is constantly changing, but that’s not all. InSight also delivered the first direct evidence of marsquakes. Here on Earth, geologists […]
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February 29, “leap day”, is an oddity on the calendar that occurs every four years in an attempt to sync up the Gregorian calendar (the calendar most of the world uses to keep time) with Earth’s rotation around the sun. One calendar year on Earth is 365 days long; however, the Earth actually takes 365.2422 […]
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