Sunday, June 29, 2025

Everything You Need To Know About The First Human Colony On Mars [INFOGRAPHIC]

Could we ever truly live on Mars? The mind boggles at the thought of it – partially because so many questions remain unanswered. Will we be able to come back? Will we be able to breathe up there? It just seemed too implausible to truly happen. But doubt no longer, because we have confirmation from this here infographic that a Mars settlement mission is very much on the cards.

South Africa Is Building A Satellite

South Africa is entering the space realm. The Denel Group is creating a high resolution, Earth observing satellite. The satellite will be called the EO-Sat1, and will be monitored by the South African National Space Agency.

A Frog Photobombed The NASA Rocket Launch [PIC]

On 6 September, NASA’s rocket Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) took off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the same time, a frog took one giant leap for amphibiankind and photobombed the whole thing. Take that, rocket ship.

Save On Transport: NASA Is Growing Lettuce In Space

NASA has a VEGGIE program, thats short for the Vegetable Production System programme, somehow. After successful attempts to grow zucchinis and other plants in zero gravity under artificial lights, NASA has announced plans to sustain space travellers on the International Space Station with produce grown on the station itself.

Not Quite Mars: China Is Sending A Rover To The Moon [PIC]

Arriving a little late for the space-race aren’t we China? While NASA is looking at photos of Mars taken by their Curiosity rover, the China National Space Administration has been sending lunar probes into orbit around the moon… And they’ve announced they’re ready to land an unmanned probe on the surface

Bad Day At The Office: Astronaut’s Helmet Fills With Water While Floating In Space

On Tuesday morning, one unlucky person living on the International Space Station was a victim of every astronauts greatest fear. While Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy were on a spacewalk conducting a routine repair of the outskirts of the Station, Parmitano began to panic. It was reported that the Italian astronaut’s helmet began to fill […]

One Day Astronauts Will Be Able To View Mars Like This [VIDEO]

The European Space Agency has given us a look into what it would look like if we had to orbit Mars. Using 600 photographs gleaned by the Visual Monitoring Camera this video has been created to give us a first look at the surroundings of the planet. The VMC captured the images during one complete seven-hour […]

Nets, Harpoons And Suicide Robots Could Be Used To Fetch Debris From Space

Since man first penetrated Earth’s atmosphere, a slew of garbage has been piling up in Near Space. The majority of the junk up there is from space shuttles. Heiner Klinkrad, a European Space Agency (ESA) space expert estimates there to be about 27,000 objects in orbit, travelling 80 times faster than a passenger jet, and that number grows, daily.

Argentina’s Sky Lit Up By Meteorite [VIDEO]

In a an event usually reserved for Russian YouTube, night turned to day in Santiago del Estero, Argentina on Saturday evening. The video shows footage taken at a concert when the sky suddenly illuminates, so much so that it looks like day for a split second.

NASA’s Best Footage Of Earth From Space, So Far [VIDEO]

It’s earth month everyone, and as a tribute to our pale blue dot, NASA has put together a highlights reel of shots of the earth from space captured over the course of 2012, so we can “understand and sustain our home planet”.