It is difficult to store, transport and prepare food in space β but does it have to be? In the video below NASA explains how astronauts get their food today, as well as discuss challenges that missions of the future might face. NASAs competition the Deep Space Food...
At first glance, the space station is very similar to the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The dream of “space ports” and hotels feels like something that only exists in the sci-fi world, but the organization Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) wants to start...
Whale sharks might be the largest fish in the ocean but nonetheless, they are the least understood creature of their kind. Marine biologists barely have any information on the whale sharks migration patterns, their global hotspots, breeding sites, or if they follow a...
We have discovered around 4,500 exoplanets around the Milky Way. We have discovered most of them by measuring how they affect the light from their star as they pass it. These are observations where we do not see the planet itself. But a new method can mean that in a...
For the first time in a decade, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for new astronauts to enter the frontier of space exploration, the agency told in a press release. The application opens on the 31st of March, and ESA encourages women to apply. Regarding the...
SpaceX is in full swing, launching thousands of satellites that will cover the entire planet with high speed internet. The project is called Starlink and has been in beta testing in certain parts of the world. Starlink can now be ordered everywhere, and is expected to...