The Suns closest neighboring star is Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf located about four light years from us. While studying the star, a group of scientists recently observed one of the most powerful solar flares ever measured. A sun flare is a sudden explosion on the...
A supply of oxygen is essential for a human presence on Mars, both supplying the astronauts with oxygen to breath and as rocket fuel. MOXIE stands for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment and is an (NASA) experiment aiming to develop a sustainable...
On Monday, NASA successfully completed the first controlled flight on another planet when Mars helicopter Ingenuity conducted a short flight in what the space agency described as “a Wright Brothers moment” in space.”Ingenuity is reported to have...
On April 12, 1961, the first manned spacecraft, Vostok 1 , was launched from the Cosmodrome in Baikonur. In it was the cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, then 27 years old. He became the first man in space.As is well known, the journey went well. After traveling...
Elon Muskβs company SpaceX, which is aiming to put the first man on Mars, is now expanding vastly and is looking for people to hire.SpaceX is located in Texas, and to attract more people to the region, Musk has promised to donate $ 30 million to local schools and the...
ESA wants to find, explore and map lunar caves and asked back in 2019 after suggestions on how to do so. One of the five winning ideas was the hamster ball, or rather a spherical robot. This robot is now included in a larger study of future missions to caves on the...