NASA to use a stratospheric balloon the size of football field to study infrared light from newborn stars ASTHROS will launch a cutting edge telescope attached to a 400-foot balloon The mission will hoist the telescope into the stratosphere There the telescope will observe gases and star formation It will create a 3D map of distant … Read more
NASA captures summer on Saturn in an amazing new snapshot from the Hubble Space Telescope The stunning image was captured by the orbiting observatory on July 4, 2020 The gas giant’s northern hemisphere appears redder in the summer sunlight Meanwhile, its ring are bright like ‘freshly fallen snow’ and the south pole is blue Two of the … Read more
Mars as you’ve never seen it before: Incredible images captured from the Martian surface by NASA rovers are remastered in stunning ultra high definition by space fans YouTubers ElderFox Documentaries created panoramas from Martian images The pictures were all taken by Curiosity, Opportunity and Spirit rovers on Mars The team ‘upscaled’ the images into ultra … Read more
Is the US creating the first military space station? Pentagon moves to design a mini ‘orbital outpost’ for government experiments The Department of Defense announced last year it wants to build a space station The group has awarded the contract to aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp The firm will transform its Shooting Star cargo ship … Read more
NASA delays launch of James Webb Telescope AGAIN pushing the Hubble successor’s target date back by seven months due to coronavirus and ‘technical challenges’ NASA’s James Webb telescope will be delayed by seven months It now has an estimated launch date of October 31st, 2021 Technical challenges are the coronavirus pandemic are to blame, says … Read more
NASA is set to send the first woman and next many to the moon in 2024 and has revealed what the crew will call home – an RV rover. The American space agency is ditching concepts of inflatable tents and underground bases, and is now looking at an pressurized surface vehicle. The space group recently … Read more
NASA unveils experimental Venus rover with FEELERS designed to avoid rocks and large holes while exploring the hellish planet surface where temperatures exceed 850 degrees Fahrenheit and air pressure is 92 times higher than on Earth A new rover design could help NASA explore the surface of Venus It was designed by Egyptian architect as … Read more
NASA updates policies to protect the moon and Mars from human germs that may hitchhike on astronauts in a bid to not contaminate samples returning to Earth NASA is set to send crewed missions to the moon in 2024 and Mars in the 2030s The agency is updating its policies that protect outer space from human … Read more
NASA has started work on a spaceship that will be sent to explore a metal-rich asteroid called Psyche that could be worth more than $10,000 quadrillion. There are so many precious metals buried within the asteroid that it could make every single person on Earth a billionaire if it were to be returned to the planet. … Read more
First stop Venus! NASA proposes using the planet to slingshot the first crewed Mars mission to save fuel and time NASA is eyeing the 2030s for the first crewed mission to Mars Now, scientist propose astronauts do a fly by of Venus along the way Astronauts could use Venus’s gravity to slingshot the craft towards … Read more