🚀 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.
🛰️ Elon Musk has announced the Starlink satellite-internet project will launch this year
The project is designed to bring internet to rural communities through thousands of tiny satellites.
🔭 NASA wants to take "close-ups" of planets in other solar systems
A research project will see if it is possible to take pictures that can show oceans and continents on planets several light-years away.
🛰 How the space industry is helping to fight Covid-19
The message is the same across the globe: everyone needs to do their part and take responsibility to fight Covid-19. It can be staying at home, buying groceries for your grandparents or sharing quarantine stories so life doesn't feel so mundane and hopeless.
👨🚀 Astronauts are isolation pros. Here are their tips on how to handle it
A huge percentage of people around the world are living in isolation to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. It can be hard! Luckily, astronauts have tons of experience with isolation, and a few have chimed in with their expert advice.
🌬️ Ozone hole closing help southern jet stream return to normal
The ozone hole is the smallest on record since its discovery, which helps the jet stream to return to normal.
👩🚀👨🚀These two explorers could be the first humans on Mars
Tina and Tom Sjogren are explorers. They've climbed Mount Everest, gone back-to-back to the North- and the South Pole, but sort of ran out of new challenges on Earth. Instead, they are looking up in space, more specifically to Mars.
🛰 SpaceX launches Starlink Satellite Constellation, breaks Record for Falcon 9 re-use
This marks the Falcon 9 booster's fifth launch to space.
☄️ Scientists may have found the first extraterrestrial protein in a meteorite
A team of scientists believes they have discovered the first extraterrestrial protein known to humanity. Using a new analysis technique, the researchers claim to have found the out-of-this-world discovery inside a meteorite that fell to Earth some 30 years ago.
🛰️ NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
In an incredible feat of remote engineering, NASA has fixed one of the most intrepid explorers in human history. Voyager 2, currently some 11.5 billion miles from Earth, is back online and resuming its mission to collect scientific data on the solar system and the interstellar space beyond.