Elon Musk was recently named man of the year by TIME. His SpaceX company has become a key player in the commercialization of space and earlier this year secured an exclusive NASA contract to put astronauts on the moon. "I think we can do a loop around the moon...
2021 marked the 30th anniversary of the first encounter with an asteroid. It opened the path for an entirely new field of research and projects. Despite the impressive progress made, science and technology still are at the very beginning of what asteroids have to...
The climate crisis is a looming threat that most countries and many companies are trying to solve through a plethora of different measures. A perhaps surprising proponent of renewables is the United States military. On December 21, The Air Force Research Laboratory...
On December 14, NASA announced that the Parker Solar Probe had flown through the sun's upper atmosphere, thus becoming the first ever to do so. As the sun lacks a solid surface, this has been referred to as "touching" the sun.The event happened on April...
To achieve the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree target, the countries of the world must reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. One of the many challenges here is knowing exactly how big a country's emissions are.Today, countries use activity data such as energy...
On November 19, the European Space Agency Council released a resolution about "accelerating the Use of Space in Europe". Agreed upon by representatives from several European countries during a conference, it's referred to as the Matosinhos Manifesto,...