Founded in 2016, Menlo Park, California-based LeoLabs, is a mind-blowing company. They have built, and continue to expand, a network of ground-based, phased array radars worldwide to keep track of the thousands of operational satellites, defunct satellites, spent rocket bodies, and pieces of debris in orbit around the Earth. Not […]
Water may be naturally occurring on all rocky planets
The emergence of life is a mystery. Nevertheless, researchers agree that water is a precondition for life. The first cell emerged in water and then evolved to form multicellular organism. The oldest known single-cell organism on Earth is about 3.5 billion years old.
Biomining on Mars and Moon: Earth Bacteria Are Here To Help
This is the first time an economically important element has been extracted from a material found on the Moon and Mars.
These 4 Crew-1 astronauts are ready to launch into orbit with SpaceX
The four astronauts scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX’s next crewed mission Saturday (Nov. 14) say they are ready to fly.
The seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica will remain active well into November
The seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica will persist well into November, according to satellite and weather balloon observations from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Driest Place on Earth Could Help Predict How Life Might be Surviving on Mars
In the next few years, Mars will be visited by three new rovers, the Perseverance, Tianwen-1, and Rosalind Franklin missions. Like their predecessors – Pathfinder and Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity, and Curiosity – these robotic missions will explore the surface, searching for evidence of past and present life. But even […]
NASA Certifies SpaceX for Human Spaceflight Days Before Crew-1 Launch
This makes the Crew Dragon the first commercial spacecraft to ever be given this designation.