Shenzhen is a city that holds a special place in my heart. Having spent around six years of my life in Mainland China, around five of them were in the southern metropolis just across the border from ...

NASA Perseverance rover is now on Mars and busily collecting samples, storing the specimens in tubes, then depositing those tubes on the surface for later pick-up. Image credit: NASA. NASA’s ...

The ISS is too large to entirely burn up in the atmosphere. Image credit: NASA. NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently ...

Simulated space ship is at the core of the SIRIUS-23 mission in a 360-day isolation experiment. Image credit: IBMP. This week, Russia will launch stage 4 of the SIRIUS Project, a 360-day isolation of ...

DAVINCI will provide the first first-hand look of Venus’s surface. Image credit: NASA. Work is underway on developing a literal “new entry” in deciphering the origin, evolution, and present state of ...

Artist’s concept of huge Orbital Launch System as foreseen by SpinLaunch, site location yet to be determined. Image credit: SpinLaunch. Leave behind those rocket fuel tanks that are topped off with ...

A new campus, called Berkeley Space Center, aims to offer lab, office, and educational spaces along with student and faculty housing, a conference center, and retail space on 36 acres within the NASA ...

NASA illustration of a future lunar outpost. Image credit: NASA. The concept of lunar habitation holds profound implications for scientific exploration, resource utilization, and the expansion of ...

NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics ...

Artist’s rendering of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) project prior to impacting the Moon in a search for lunar water ice. Image credit: NASA. Without doubt, Earth’s Moon ...

Sierra Space’s inflatable LIFE habitat. Image credit: Sierra Space. Sierra Space just completed dramatic (and explosive) testing of a potential space station. Instead of dreading the outcome, however, ...

The National Academies recommend a significant investment in further studying how space affects living things. Image credit: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The already fast ...