🚀 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.
🌎 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.
🚀 Going to space will cost only $2,000
Traveling to space today costs tens of millions of dollar, but within a couple of decades it can be as cheap as $2,000.
👨🚀 Tom Cruise is filming at the International Space Station
Tom Cruise and Elon Musk make a joint venture with NASA and record the first film in space.
🌕 Scientists have released the first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moon
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space.