NASA Perseverance rover is now on Mars and busily collecting samples, storing the specimens in tubes, then depositing those tubes on the surface for later pick-up. Image credit: NASA. NASA’s ...
The ISS is too large to entirely burn up in the atmosphere. Image credit: NASA. NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently ...
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing of ...
Quad Cities International Airport is launching a feasibility study about opening a spaceport. Image credit: Quad Cities International Airport. The Quad Cities International Airport in Moline, Michigan ...
The massive rocket that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk positioned as the vehicle that will bring astronauts to the Moon and eventually Mars took flight on Saturday (November 18), approximately seven months ...
Simulated space ship is at the core of the SIRIUS-23 mission in a 360-day isolation experiment. Image credit: IBMP. This week, Russia will launch stage 4 of the SIRIUS Project, a 360-day isolation of ...
Space mining startup AstroForge just got a little bit closer to achieving their goal of mining asteroids for precious metals, after announcing in a press release shared with SpaceRef on Wednesday, ...
Artist’s concept of huge Orbital Launch System as foreseen by SpinLaunch, site location yet to be determined. Image credit: SpinLaunch. Leave behind those rocket fuel tanks that are topped off with ...
The past decade has seen an explosion in space activity in both the commercial and government sector. The rise of commercial space has been well-documented, with companies like SpaceX capturing ...
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hueso (University of the Basque Country), I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley), T. Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), L ...
NASA illustration of a future lunar outpost. Image credit: NASA. Hoping to fuse the lessons learned from the creation of the now ubiquitous ARPANET 50 years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
HITSat factory concept in Harbin. Image credit: HITSat. It’s no secret that China has been launching satellites at a dramatically increasing rate over the past several years. According to data from ...