Ahead of the rotorcraft landing on Titan, SMU chemists will be recreating the conditions on Titan in multiple glass cylinders, each the size of a needle top, so they can learn about what kind of chemical structures could form on the surface of Titan
NASA -- Fifty years after the Apollo Program ended, NASA is once again planning to set foot on the moon and they target to make it happen by 2024. They said this is to provide grounding on the testing of the new generation of space crafts that have since been developed and improved ahead of its mission to Mars.
Water molecules found near the vicinity of the moon from meteors hitting the moon's surface. Data from a lunar orbiter recently gave way to the conclusion that the moon has been wet for billions of years.
Russia is now part of a space competition focused on conducting deep space exploration. RUSSIA -- According to the head of the Russian Space Agency, the country has recently entered a space competition.
Robot snakes wiil one day emerge from rovers and slither across alien landscapes. In the near future, a rover lands near a rocky field on Mars. The area is too chaotic to navigate.
Millions of defunct man-made and natural space debris are causing a complicated space traffic. Space authorities are afraid of their long-term impact on working satellites and space flights.
The electromagnetic railgun uses electricity instead of chemicals to fire projectiles. Apart from warfare, space exploration may be the first to benefit from the technology.
Find out details about Venus' discovered twin, GJ 1132b here. The possible twin of Venus, which is considered as "arguably the most important planet ever found outside the Solar System" was reported to have been discovered.
Microbial life on Mars could have existed at the surface early in Mars' history overflowing with water. But as the planet dried up and cooled down due to a loss of atmosphere, any life could have been driven down, force into rare surface oases or just simply died out.
European Space Agency (ESA) has now doubled their efforts on Mars mission in 2020 after the failed mission of Schiaparelli lander last year. Half a billion Euros are now been poured by ESA to be dedicated to the next phase of the Exomars 2020 program.