
NASA DART craft punches an asteroid in the face
NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid in the world’s first test of a planetary defense system to deflect a doomsday meteorite. Read more…
NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid in the world’s first test of a planetary defense system to deflect a doomsday meteorite. Read more…
Inversion Space wants to build space capsules that can store stuff in orbit and deliver it to and from Earth easily – even pizza, maybe, Read more…
Warp drive is now a ‘thing.’ As with many of the best inventions, it appeared while scientists were looking the other way. Read more…
The Universe is coming into focus and every discovery seems to add new bafflement to our understanding of how things work. Read more…
Space junk is an issue that needs to be addressed immediately, otherwise the risks of catastrophic collisions cannot be ignored. Read more…
The sun is the central point of our solar system and yet we are only just beginning to understand how it works. It could be really useful. Read more…
The human body does not do well in space. We are, let’s face it, a bit puny when it comes to conquering inhospitable environments. Read more…
After decades of not much happening with humans in space, or at least it has been a bit quiet, things are getting quite exciting again Read more…
For humans to get very far in space – to Mars for instance – we will need to adapt hugely to the pressures of space travel. Read more…
Predictions and promises that the IoT market is taking off have been here for five years. Now, ‘helped’ by COVID-19, all the lights are green. Read more…
Some day soon you might be able to board a rocket and get a room with a view – of the whole planet – from a hotel in space. Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: volcanoes from space; alien spy probes round the sun; oasis on Mars; underwater museum; flags Read more…
Pakistan said on Thursday it aims to send its first astronaut into space by 2022 and will begin selecting candidates next year. Read more…
NASA will allow private citizens to stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for a month-long getaway at a cost of about $35,000 per night. Read more…
This week: inflatable astronauts; a big black hole; bio-hacking; are humans safe in space; artificial muscles. Read more…
Friday Futures: Chickens are laying eggs with cancer drugs in them; Google wants to kill the URL; and astronomers find cool distant object with cheap telescope. Read more…
mu Space, Thailand’s newest space and satellite company plans to enter into the projects of the US space agency NASA. Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Rocket Lab, a rocket propulsion company backed by investors in Silicon Valley, has launched a batch of 13 tiny probes from New Zealand to study space. The Electron rocket lifted off on Read more…
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Amazon is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the country’s giant telescopes, which could prove fertile ground for the company to develop new artificial Read more…
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon Read more…
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