🚀 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.
🌌 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.
👩🚀 Spaceport City wants to send the first commercial astronauts in 2030
Spaceport City in Japan is an ambitious spaceport that aims to start sending people to space in 2030.
👩🚀 Europeans will go to the Moon
ESA and NASA have signed an agreement for European participation in the lunar Gateway program, including sending European astronauts. This will be the first time European nationals travel to the Moon.
🔧 Space debris now detectable in daylight
The breakthrough is possible thanks to a combination of laser technology, image-processing and orbit-estimation algorithms.
🥩 Grows steak in space - that we also can eat on Earth
A steak produced in space - without killing a cow. Does that sound like science fiction? Well, now it's science fact.
🌜 Artemis Accords will guarantee that space exploration benefits all of humanity
A new agreement will set up rules for future space exploration and reduce the ambiguities in the current agreement.
🛰️ NASA touches down on asteroid and collects dust to understand the origin of our Solar System
OSIRIS-REx briefly touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, and during that time collected dust samples that will be returned to Earth. Bennu is 4,5 billion years old so scientist hopes it can help us understand the origin of our Solar System.