🚀 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.
🚁 NASA will attempt the first flight on another world
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is on its way to the Red Planet. Once there it will try the first-ever flight on another celestial body.
🚀 Mars in 4K
What a month it has been for space exploration! Everyone is headed for Mars. And this timely footage compliments all of the excitement with the first ever 4K imagery of the Red Planet.
🚀 Chinese Mars mission Tianwen-1 blasts off towards the red planet
The spacecraft Tianwen-1 bound for Mars was successfully launched on a Long March 5 rocket, marking the start of Chinese interplanetary space exploration.
🌎 Satellite data to enable real-time tracking of all the world’s carbon emissions
The recently launched ‘Climate TRACE’ coalition is building a tool to track emissions worldwide. The tool is to be launched in time for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow next year.
🛰️ Twin CubeSats ready for empirical testing of faster de-orbiting using space tethers
DRAGRACER satellites ready for in-orbit demonstration to compare the added efficiency of deploying a long and thin tape for increased drag when de-orbiting.
🚀 The UAE has launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, bound for Mars
The spacecraft 'Hope' was successfully launched from the southern tip of Japan, marking the Arab world's first-ever Mars mission.
☄️ NEOWISE: Get your glimpse now or never
A once in a lifetime (or 100 lifetimes) opportunity to see this majestic display of the cosmos is coming to an end soon. But it's not too late to see NEOWISE before it departs for another 6,800 years.
🌠 Starshot could spread life to other star systems
Project Starshot aims to send tiny spacecraft to our closest star system, Alpha Centauri at a speed of 20% of light speed. This opens the possibility of also sending life into space.
🔭 Astronomers take help of AI to discover new stars
Astronomy enters the era of artificial intelligence. Machine learning techniques aid in discovery of new proto-stars.