Varda Space Industries wants to build the world’s first commercial microgravity industrial park at scale.
Tiangong is currently inhabited by the three-person Shenzhou 17 crew, but China aims to keep the orbital outpost occupied for at least a decade and potentially utilize the station for commercial purposes.
At a time when the internet is littered with AI-created images that are hard to tell apart from the real deal, it’s clear that no one does it better than Mother Nature.
The nation’s ability to adapt and refine existing technology, combined with its wealth of skilled engineers operating at lower wages compared to international counterparts, have been driving factors in India’s success.
About 30 astronauts and cosmonauts have died while training for or attempting dangerous space missions. But the vast majority of these deaths occurred either on the ground or in Earth’s atmosphere.
If you’re a fellow space-geek, the four-part Netflix docuseries Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine should be entering your personal orbit.
“Give me fuel! Give me fire!” the award-winning metal band sings on top of their characteristic guitar power chords.
“Our own Sun experienced a phase like this long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story.”
It’s pretty cool to see astronomy pros and hobbyists alike share some of their incredible shots of the pretty things up top in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards.
Sound not being able to travel in space hasn’t stopped NASA from producing musical tones from the same telescope data that shows us such stunning pictures of deep space.
While there’s no man or rabbit on the moon, NASA says there might actually be something on the moon.
Feeling small is nice if you just go with it and pretend you’re an atom being sucked into the void, without bills or adult friendships to worry over.
A plummeting green light burned through the sky over Australia on Saturday with such a brilliant flash that it could be seen for miles.
Black holes are so massive that not even light can escape, which is how you know you’re basically nothing in comparison.
Talk about a supernova explosion.
“Do we have a lady? Check. Do we have a black person? Affirmative. Do we have all the woke boxes checked for history-making and viral fame? It’ll do.”
This particular asteroid was predicted to return in 2026, and scientists at the European Space Agency’s planetary defence initially thought the return journey would put it on a collision course with Earth.
The Pentagon loves their abbreviations, so AARO instructed NASA to investigate NEOs with Pan-STARRS. LOL.
Supernovas have been captured before. But the singular moment right before the star dies has never been seen before the way it has now.
While scanning a region of the cosmos near the Big Dipper, a group of astronomers identified something that has pretty much blown their minds.
Expert said “airbursts of this size happen somewhere several times per year” and are “rarely discovered in advance”.
The new dataset is made up of 21 400 shots that took two years to take, containing a staggering 3,32 billion celestial objects.
It’s a big win for the Karoo that the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and NASA have renewed their partnership in lunar exploration.
The man who managed to see SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lift off from his seat on a United Airlines flight said it totally topped any in-flight-entertainment.
An awesome photo of Earth made waves on the internet. The image featured two blue ominous orbs, hovering over our planet.
The simulation, exploring what would happen if a 500-kilometre-wide asteroid collided with Earth, doesn’t really make for cosy viewing.
Last week, the official theme song, ‘Semper Supra’ – which is Latin for ‘always above’ – debuted at the 2022 Air, Space, and Cyber Conference.
We’ve only ever seen this icy giant in great detail when NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and only space probe to fly past it for just a few hours in 1989.
The latest showcase is of the Orion Nebula, a star nursery located 1 350 light-years from Earth in the Orion constellation, now revealed in incredible detail.
Earlier this year, a panel of experts from the US National Academies recommended a mission to the ice giant.