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Space
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NASA Astronaut Rates Accuracy Of Space Movies – ‘Gravity’ Didn’t Do Well [Trailers]
19 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Space movies are great, but often take liberties when it comes to how life really works up there. NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman stepped in to set a few things straight.
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More Pictures Of Mars As Perseverance Completes Successful Landing
19 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
After years of planning, and months of waiting for her to touch down on Mars, Perseverance is ready to start work on the Red Planet.
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Greta Thunberg Made A Tourism Ad For Mars, But With A Twist [Video]
18 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Greta Thunberg and her team filmed a satirical tourism video that is worth remembering as the Perseverance rover heads for Mars.
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NASA Prepares For “Seven Minutes Of Terror” Ahead Of Mars Landing [Video]
17 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Mars rover launched in July last year, and has just about completed its journey, which is set to culminate in a nail-biting “seven minutes of terror”.
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Another Explosive Landing For SpaceX Starship [Video]
03 Feb 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Back in December, there was an explosive landing, and it was a case of déjà vu yesterday with the latest uncrewed vehicle, codenamed SN9.
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A Raffle Will Decide Who Gets To Go On SpaceX’s First Commercial Space Mission
02 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Three lucky people will be joining tech billionaire Jared Isaacman on a private flight into space, and there’s even a raffle running for the honour.
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It’s Elon Musk Versus Jeff Bezos In ‘Space Real Estate’ War
27 Jan 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
It’s Amazon versus SpaceX in a battle for galactic real estate in the satellite-based internet market.
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What It’s Like Watching The Pandemic Play Out From Space [Video]
12 Jan 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Astronaut Jessica Meir describes her experience of being one of the people furthest away from Earth when the pandemic started.
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NASA Gears Up To Ignite “The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built” [Videos]
11 Jan 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA once again has its sights set on the Moon, and it’s built a beast of a rocket to get the job done.
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So How Much Could You Get Selling A Meteorite That Hits Your Home?
17 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Josua Hutagalung found out just how much a meteorite is worth when one crashed into the side of his home in Indonesia.
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SpaceX Landing Doesn’t Go Well – Explodes [Video]
10 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
We can all be relieved that Elon Musk’s Starship SN8 prototype wasn’t manned when it plummeted back to Earth.
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Meteor Fireball Spotted In Japan Is Quite Something [Video]
30 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
On Sunday, “a dazzling fireball” was seen lighting up the skies across large areas of western Japan, as a meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere.
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SpaceX Astronaut Blown Away By It All – Shoots Video Of Earth
26 Nov 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
44-year-old Victor Glover is pretty stoked with life right about now, as he begins his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
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What It Takes To Be An Astronaut On The First Mars Mission [Video]
25 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The astronauts chosen for the first mission to Mars will need more than just the technical know-how to complete the mission successfully.
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Don’t Panic, But There’s A Small Chance Asteroid Apophis Could Smash Into Earth
18 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA keeps a watchlist of all the asteroids that they think might be heading our way, and Asteroid 99942 Apophis is under close supervision.
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There’s A Good Reason Baby Yoda Was Just Sent Into Space
17 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Baby Yoda played an important role in the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.
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Historic NASA Photos Up For Auction
10 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Christie’s is auctioning off images from those first few years of space exploration, captured when photography was still analogue.
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What It’s Really Like To Live On The International Space Station [Video]
03 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Hollywood would have us believe that floating around in space is a glamourous business, but in reality, it can be a little gross.
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They’re Starting To Place Value On Asteroids Now [Video]
02 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
If hypotheses are correct, even Jeff Bezos couldn’t afford to buy Asteroid Psyche, which is worth more than the entire economy on our planet.
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Scientists Reckon They Know What Was On That 2018 ‘Fireball’ Meteor [Videos]
28 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
For more than two years, scientists have been studying a 12 million-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth in 2018, and they’re ready to reveal the results.
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Footage Of NASA Probe Touching Down On That Asteroid [Videos]
22 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
In another landmark space adventure, NASA’s mission to collect dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu was a success.
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It Was A Pretty Average Monday Aboard The International Space Station
21 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
It was one of those days when everything went wrong, except it all happened in space which raises the stakes a little.
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Elon Musk Reckons Success Of Colonising Mars Depends On One Thing
21 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Musk recently spoke at the Mars Society’s annual conference, and said that projects to develop a Martian settlement were already underway.
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Here’s How NASA Plans To ‘High Five’ An Asteroid [Video]
20 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
In a first for NASA, the Osiris-Rex probe hopes to touch down on a large asteroid and grab some rocks and dust in what has been dubbed a “high five manoeuvre”.
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SpaceX’s Starman Just Cruised Past Mars In A Tesla
09 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Tesla Roadster, with its mannequin ‘pilot’ Starman, made its first close approach to Mars.
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Biggest TV Prize Ever – The World’s First Space Reality Show Is Three Years Away
21 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
A new reality show, set to be filmed in 2023, wants to send one person to the International Space Station, in what organisers call “the biggest prize ever awarded on TV”.
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Scientists May Have Found Life On Venus
15 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
While Venus is far too hot to sustain life, a new discovery suggests that something may be living in the planet’s atmosphere.
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The Southern African Connection With NASA’s Latest Mars Exploration [Video]
19 Aug 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is looking to make history by becoming the first helicopter ever designed to fly on another planet.
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First NASA Water Landing Since 1975 [Videos]
03 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Crew Dragon returned to Earth safely after its historic mission to the International Space Station.
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Here’s What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Looking For On Mars [Videos]
30 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Rover is loaded up on Atlas 5 and ready to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Destination: Mars.
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