28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
... return to the Moon. NASA has the opportunity to again inspire a whole new generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers. This is why Blue Origin answered NASA’s urgent call to develop a Human Landing System. We built the National...
09 August 2021
NASA is seeking applicants for yearlong simulated Mars mission
... the rigor of a long-duration, ground-based simulation. The series of missions - known as Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog - includes three one-year Mars surface simulations based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The analogs...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... for crewed spacecraft represents a completely different challenge for engineers, but is no less important for the structured exploration of space… and it begins with learning to grow food in space. Obtaining all the same kinds of vitamins and...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
Building a settlement on Mars has gained a lot of traction in the last few years but is the red planet the best place to establish such a base? According to a recent study, such a settlement is possible but, instead of targeting a close planetary ...
17 January 2018
First inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster
Astronomers studying the strange behaviour of a star in the cluster NGC 3201 have found an even more unusual reason for its mysterious movements – the gravitational pull of an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun. This is ...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
A new study into the Moon’s water content and how it is distributed on its surface now indicates that there might be more of it than previously thought and that it might not be confined to a particular region or type of terrain, but is more ...
