The NASA Artemis moon-landing project will select a woman for the team, leading to history's first woman on the moon. NASA is currently holding a training program for the Artemis moon landing project with 18 astronauts. Reports suggest that one of the elite astronauts chosen for the mission may include Dr. Jessica Meir, a graduate of Brown University.
Astronomers from the University of Montreal (UdeM) discovered that the core mass for exoplanet WASP-107b is a lot lower than previously thought necessary to form giant gas planets such as Saturn and Jupiter.
Research explains why gas planets have magnetization despite not having metal. Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is 1,300 times the Earth's size but does not behave as it should or as scientists predict.
The term Virgin Orbit is no longer a simple aspiration. The LauncherOne rocket from the California corporation entered orbit on Jan. 17 on Launch Demo 2.
Scientists are trying to recreate Martian soil conditions on Earth to find a way of stimulating plant growth on the Red Planet for future manned missions.
Last year, space exploration was affected by the pandemic. Space exploration was affected last year by the pandemic. But in another otherwise challenging, exhausting 2020, we were somehow able to make our way through the universe.