🚀 Space
Space is the final frontier and is now being opened to everyone thanks to front runners such as NASA and now SpaceX and Elon Musk, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.
🛰️ Giant solar power plants in space can give us all the energy we need
Cheaper rocket launches could make it economically possible to build solar power plants in space in the future.
🌳 NASA is counting Earth's trees from space
NASA is using supercomputers and artificial intelligence to count the Earth’s trees from space.
🚀 Rocket Lab successfully completes booster recovery
Rocket Lab joins the list of private launch companies to have successfully recovered the first stage of a rocket after launch. The stage survived atmospheric reentry and a controlled fall into the Pacific Ocean.
🔭 First ever exoplanet discovery made by artificial intelligence
Astronomers applied a machine learning algorithm to validate the presence of exoplanets on telescope images, resulting in 50 new confirmed discoveries.
🚀 Chang’e-5 blasts off towards the Moon
China has launched the latest mission in its ambitions series of Moon projects. Chang’e-5 will bring the first sample from the lunar surface back to Earth since the 1970’s.
📚 E-book: The New Space Race
In the 1960’s the US and Soviet Union went head to head in the race to space. Today, sixty years later, the new space race has set its eyes not just on going to orbit around Earth, researching asteroids for minerals and going back to the Moon.
🌌 There may be 300 million Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
Seven percent of the four billion sun-like stars in our galaxy may have planets in the habitable zone.
🛰 NASA ready to go to Mars and bring samples back to Earth
NASA is preparing a trip to Mars with the goal of bringing home physical samples. Being able to analyze samples at home offers many new and exciting opportunities and is an important step towards future colonization of our neighbor.
👨🚀 SpaceX creates history again - four astronauts on their way to the ISS
Last night, four astronauts were sent with a SpaceX spacecraft to the International Space Station, ISS. This is the first time NASA has sent astronauts on a full-fledged mission with a commercial player.