SPACE

Space Oven is Ready for a Test Cook-Off

TECH & INNOVATION 11.04.2019 07:27 AM

This will be tested to bake chocolate chip cookies from scratch in a zero-gravity environment. Eating is entirely a different matter when you're an astronaut.

Hubble Captures a Ghoulish Image Produced by Twin Galaxies Colliding

11.04.2019 06:56 AM

The crash resulted in the galaxies being pulled and stretched on an outward direction and because of this stretch, star formation turned to shape the nose and face of the intergalactic ghoul.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the 70th International Astronautical Congress.

Full-Speed Ahead: NASA Aims for Manned Mars Mission by 2035

10.25.2019 11:17 AM

NASA aims for human exploration of the Red Planet by 2035, as said during this year's IAC. Several representatives of the world's leading space agencies are gathered at the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) currently ongoing in Washington.

Developing agriculture in space provides a key resource for developing extraterrestrial colonies.

Growing Plants in Space: Why It's Important

10.23.2019 05:34 AM

A summary of recent developments in growing food crops in space. With more missions planned for the Moon and Mars, rapid technological developments are now in the pipeline to ensure their success.

Hubble's view of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, 260 million miles from Earth.

Hubble Telescope Takes Sharpest Image Yet of First-Ever Confirmed Interstellar Comet

10.21.2019 08:52 AM

NASA's Hubble Telescope captures an amazing shot of the first confirmed interstellar comet to enter our solar system.

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, First All-Female Spacewalk Crew

Trump Calls NASA's First All-Female Spacewalk Crew

10.21.2019 08:06 AM

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir from the first ever all-female spacewalk get a direct call from President Trump, a tradition since 1969.

Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Christina Koch (left) poses for a photo with colleague Jessica Meir (right) while preparing for the first all-women spacewalk in history.

Christina Koch and Jessica Meir Execute First All-Woman Spacewalk

10.19.2019 10:41 AM

Friday's spacewalk was the 221st performed to support the International Space Station, but it was the first to be conducted entirely by women.

The view on Mars taken from the Viking 1 Lander, which also conducted the Labeled Release experiments.

Evidence of Martian Life Found in 70s, Says Former NASA Scientist

10.16.2019 06:18 AM

Dr. Gilbert Levin, who previously headed NASA's Labeled Release experiments, suggests that we found Martian life in 1976.

One of the fruits that the researchers were able to harvest from lunar and Martian soil was tomatoes.

Space Agriculture: Crops Can Be Grown on Moon and Mars Soil

10.16.2019 06:01 AM

Researchers are able to harvest fruits and seeds grown on simulated Moon and Mars soil. With NASA, the European Space Agency, and Roscosmos all looking at future missions to Mars in the near future, the race is on in the age of space colonization.

A New Interstellar Comet Has Just Been Observed . . . And It's Boring

10.15.2019 05:39 AM

A new interstellar comet has been discovered and it looks similar to the comets already present in the solar system.

NASA Engineer Proposes Engine That Runs Without Any Fuel

10.15.2019 04:55 AM

David Burns, a NASA engineer, has proposed an engine which runs on forward momentum. Strictly speaking, this violates the law which states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, but his design focuses on Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity which can make the mechanism possible.