Shenzhen is a city that holds a special place in my heart. Having spent around six years of my life in Mainland China, around five of them were in the southern metropolis just across the border from ...
NASA Perseverance rover is now on Mars and busily collecting samples, storing the specimens in tubes, then depositing those tubes on the surface for later pick-up. Image credit: NASA. NASA’s ...
Yufeng Ge, left, and Santosh Pitla inspect the Flexible Robot, or Flex-Ro, which is outfitted with sensors that collect data and help the vehicle avoid obstacles. Image credit: UNL. For humans to ...
The ISS is too large to entirely burn up in the atmosphere. Image credit: NASA. NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently ...
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing of ...
The massive rocket that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk positioned as the vehicle that will bring astronauts to the Moon and eventually Mars took flight on Saturday (November 18), approximately seven months ...
The Capture, Containment, and Return System is part of the multi-mission Mars Sample Return program being planned by NASA and European Space Agency (ESA). Image credit: NASA/GSFC. NASA has begun ...
The ESA Inter-Ministerial Conference held earlier this month showed that member states have developed a new focus on resolving Europe’s domestic launcher deficit, as well as using space to address ...
Simulated space ship is at the core of the SIRIUS-23 mission in a 360-day isolation experiment. Image credit: IBMP. This week, Russia will launch stage 4 of the SIRIUS Project, a 360-day isolation of ...
DAVINCI will provide the first first-hand look of Venus’s surface. Image credit: NASA. Work is underway on developing a literal “new entry” in deciphering the origin, evolution, and present state of ...
Space mining startup AstroForge just got a little bit closer to achieving their goal of mining asteroids for precious metals, after announcing in a press release shared with SpaceRef on Wednesday, ...
Illustration of Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-1 spacecraft, demonstrating a water-based propulsion system in low-Earth orbit. Image credit: NASA. NASA recently announced its latest challenge with ...