NASA, the American space agency, recently hit the runway with its long awaited rather revolutionary X-59 for its first Taxi test at California Plant 42. Quite temptingly, with this taxi test, it is safe to say that we are very close to witnessing an unprecedented event in the history of aviation; vi
The appearance of 3I/ATLAS is not merely an astronomical curiosity; it’s a human reminder of just how tiny we truly are in the universe. This ancient, older than our solar system interstellar comet drifting slowly by our planet is not merely a glacier; it’s something from a time and a pl
SpaceX has somewhat turned space into a factory operation. Adding 53 satellites in one day is more than impressive. It’s what you can call an industrial scale manufacturing that’s happening in orbit. The active satellites number of 7900 tells the real story. SpaceX plans to build a massive spi
Dark matter remains one of the most mysterious elements of the universe, because it’s completely invisible to us. It neither emits nor absorbs light, so we can’t observe it directly. A team of researchers believe that they’ve come across important data that could change that, thoug
The folks over at NASA are certainly knee deep in research and development as well, and they have been working on the possibility of 3D printed food before. Well, it seems that there is yet another milestone achieved this week where human spaceflight is concerned – a 3D printer was turned on in spac
China on Saturday successfully recovered an experimental spacecraft that flew around the moon and back in a test run for the country’s first unmanned return trip to the lunar surface. The eight-day trip marked the first time in almost four decades that a spacecraft has returned to Earth after
Now that the Rosetta spacecraft is orbiting its target comet, the European Space Agency is finalizing the plans for the ship’s Philae lander ahead of a historic touchdown on November 11th. The team has picked five potential landing sites that meet its requirements, all of which should keep Phi
NASA’s next Mars rover will carry seven instruments, including one that will be able to make oxygen on Mars. “The 2020 rover will help answer questions about the Martian environment that astronauts will face, and test technologies they need before landing on, exploring and returning from
Forty years-ago, before Voyager 1 left our solar system and careened into interstellar space, NASA equipped it with a golden record. But this wasn’t just any golden record; it was filled with images and words from Carl Sagan, a well-known astronomer who hosted Cosmos: A Personal Voyage when it origi
NASA says it will send a new probe meant to understand the nature of mysterious dark energy, which makes up of about three-quarters of the universe and drives its endless expansion. The agency has proposed a Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope mission, which is tentatively scheduled to launch in th
NASA has put plans in motion to build the largest and most powerful rocket the world has ever seen. It sounds like the beginning of a new Bond film, but the agency said it’s moving forward with a new Space Launch System capable of lifting up to 286,000 pounds. The first manned launch is tentatively
As the commercial space sector continues to develop apace, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, is about to unveil what it hopes will become the enzyme for a revolution in U.S. manned space transportation. Tonight at 7PM PDT, the manned version of the company’s hugely successful Dragon space c