AI to Automate Identification of Landing and Exploration Sites on the Lunar Surface

TECH & INNOVATION 07.12.2021 22:29 PM

Scientists have applied machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically scan the lunar surface for optimal landing and exploration sites.

Winchcombe Meteorite Officially Classified as 'Extremely Rare Space Rock' Worth Almost $140,000

07.12.2021 07:15 AM

Winchcombe meteorite fell on Earth in February in Cotswolds and is now classified as an extremely space rock worth almost $140,000. Scientists hope it could provide clues to life in space.

Israel’s SpaceIL Secures $70 Million for 2024 Launch to Moon

07.12.2021 04:40 AM

Beresheet 2 mission hopes to launch in 2024 and will see double landing of two small crafts that will detach from mothership, one of them aiming for far side

FAA Activates Feature That Cuts Space Launch Airspace Disruptions

07.12.2021 02:18 AM

The FAA is implementing a Space Data Integrator prototype that will track a space launch or reentry vehicle traveling through the national airspace in near real-time.

Exoplanets With "Goldilocks Zone" Could Host Life, NASA Suggests

07.12.2021 00:01 AM

Planets which are tilted on their axis, like Earth, are more capable of evolving complex life. This finding will help scientists refine the search for more advanced life on exoplanets.

'Space Rice' Aboard Chang'e 5 Lunar Probe Produces Grain, Potential Addition of Rice Variety on China's Food Industry

07.11.2021 23:00 PM

China's space rice traveled 23 days on space yielded grains. The improvement is expected to contribute another variety of rice to the country's food market and space mutation breeding studies.

Black Holes Might Have Hair, Study Says – Is Albert Einstein Wrong?

07.11.2021 22:38 PM

A new study shows that extreme black holes could break the famous “no-hair” theorem, and in a way that we could detect.

Richard Branson, Crew Members Reaches Space on Virgin Galactic Rocket; How Does Space Plane Work?

07.11.2021 20:05 PM

Richard Branson is on his way to fulfilling a lifetime's ambition: flying to the edge of space. His Virgin Galactic rocket plane has taken off for a 1.5-hour mission

Elon Musk Plans to Build Rocket Facility in Waco After Cargo Dragon Capsule Lands Off Gulf of Mexico

07.11.2021 06:43 AM

SpaceX will break ground soon on a rocket engine factory near Waco. Elon Musk shared his plans after Cargon Dragon landed in Gulf of Mexico.

Slight Air Leak Aboard ISS Russian Segment Continues to Baffle Cosmonauts; What Happened?

07.11.2021 03:28 AM

According to Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, cosmonauts are still trying to identify the source of a leak causing air to escape from the International Space Station’s Russian segment.

Richard Branson Soon Flies Virgin Galactic Unity 11 Into Space, Gets Support from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk [WATCH]

07.11.2021 03:21 AM

Richard Branson is poised to make history as the first aerospace company founder to fly into space - and his fellow visionary Elon Musk has some words of support.

Chinese Spacewalk Completed: Will China Make Another Walk in The Park? [WATCH]

07.11.2021 00:51 AM

A latest tweet by Reuters said China made history with the first spacewalk outside its Tiangong station hundreds of miles above earth.

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Captures Heart-Shaped Feature; Showing the Site Perseverance Took a Slight Detour

07.10.2021 01:21 AM

NASA's four-pound Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, during its most recent flight to Mars, captured a heart-shaped feature among the tracks that the six-wheeled Perseverance rover made.

Why Does Jupiter Blink? Experts Answer 4-Decade Mystery of the Gas Giant's Chronic X-Ray Aurora Flares

07.10.2021 00:55 AM

A new feature of the planet Jupiter had been solved. After 40 years of mystery, the planet's X-ray aurora origin had been identified.

'Finding Prospero': Skyrora Launches Challenge to Find the Best Way to Retrieve This 1st and Only UK Spacecraft

07.09.2021 23:25 PM

Skyrora, an Edinburgh-based rocket firm has recently issued a challenge called "Finding Prospero," to find a way to retrieve the Prospero satellite.