Space

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced a launch window for the 15km hop test for the Starship SN8! Weather permitting, Monday November 9th, 2020 should be a spectacular show! More here:…

A once in a lifetime view of celestial giants Saturn and Jupiter are coming up on December 21st, 2020, called the “Great Conjunction”. They will appear so close to each…

SpaceX has announced that it will live stream its historic 15km high altitude hop of its Starship SN8. The company is aiming for the flight test before end of 2020…

New discoveries continue to come in. Scientists have discovered the smallest (Mars-sized) exoplanet that is free floating in the Milky Way galaxy. More than 4000 exoplanets have been discovered to…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has just completed a milestone 100 launches of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on October 24th! Not only is it great for business (cost savings of millions…

After resolving an engine issue with the Falcon 9 rocket, its green lights ahead for the next manned mission for SpaceX on Nov. 14th. Three American astronauts will be joined…

It’s like sci-fi but for real! NASA and the European Space Agency have teamed up for the Artemis Lunar Gateway lunar outpost. The first woman to set foot on the…

Elon Musk’s BFR rocket is starting to shape up for its first 15km flight test. With a dose of good luck, we may see the ship do its flight test…

New discoveries of exoplanets are nothing new. But when an Earth sized planet is discovered in the “habitable” zone of it’s star, it’s exciting news! Enjoy: https://scitechdaily.com/first-habitable-zone-earth-sized-exoplanet-discovered-with-planet-hunter-tess/

What an exciting time to be living in with all kind of scientific confirmations coming in near weekly. Today: NASA Confirms presence of water on the surface of the moon!…

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered what is yet the closest living twin to our own planet Earth: Kepler-452b in the constallation Cygnus, about 1,400 light years away. What makes this…

Based upon research from the 2013 X-51A Waverider tests, a new hypersonic U.S. plane is planned for flight in 2023 at speeds five times the speed of sound! DARPA, the…

A grad student from the UK’s Royal College of Art, has devised a synthetic leaf that uses photosynthesis to create oxygen as real plants do on earth. The invention may…

Astronomers have discovered that the Milky Way Galaxy is lighter than previously thought. Using a new way of calculation, the Royal Astronomical Society has revised the Milky Way to be…

A planet the size of Earth, with a composition similar to diamond has been discovered by scientists some 900 light years away in the constellation Aquarius! Another reason for our…

Italian coffee giant Lavazza has teamed up with Agrotec to come up with the first ‘fresh brewed’ coffee machine for the International Space Station. Called ISSpresso, the machine will bring…

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA has announced the test launch of its saucer shaped Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle. The test flight at U.S. Navy’s Pacific…

Astronomers have discovered a new ‘super’ earth, a rocky planet about twice the size of our own home planet, some 560 light years away in the constallation Draco. The rocky…

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has been approved for flights by the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. Virgin Galactic plans to have maiden flights of its Space Ship Two to…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced the Dragon V2, the first commercial manned reusable spacecraft. Designed to land vertically back down to Earth, the 7 seater spaceship can be refueled and…