Space Junk Survey: Japan’s Astroscale Successfully Launches World’s First Orbital Debris Inspection Probe

Medicine & Technology Feb 21, 2024

A Japanese firm has confirmed its successful launch of a spacecraft specifically tasked with examining the dangers of space junk. Find out more about it in this article.

Space Exploration Revolution: NASA's 'Pellet-Beam Propulsion' Could Enable a Probe to Reach Interstellar Space in 5 Years

Mar 24, 2023

Though the concept is still fully theoretical, NASA's pellet-beam propulsion could shorten interstellar space travel to five years or so. Read to learn more.

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover, Probes Call Home From Billions of Light Years Away Through DSN

Oct 28, 2021

Using the Deep Space Network, NASA can still communicate with rovers and space probes billions of miles apart from Earth.

Scientists develop probe that detects cancers

Mar 30, 2019

Purdue University researchers discover a probe that detects autoimmune diseases

Mars Moon Exploration Project: France & Japan Aim To Land Probe

Apr 16, 2017

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is the Japanese partner for the Martian Moon Exploration Project. The mars moon Phobos is slightly egg shaped and is 27 kilometers in diameter if measured from end to end.

New Horizons, Old Science—Recycling the Old Playstation Processor

Jan 16, 2015

Old technology, ground breaking mission; NASA's New Horizon probe is encroaching on the "dwarf planet" Pluto with a data-logging 1996 PlayStation processor.