NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has been delayed again and won’t launch until July 30 ‘at the earliest’ due to problems with the launch vehicle, according to the space agency. This is the second time the launch has been delayed in the past week – it was originally due to set off on July 17 but … Read more
NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken begin seven-hour spacewalk to replace ageing batteries on the International Space Station The spacewalk is the latest in a series of mission to replace ageing batteries Cassidy and Behnken will swap out nickel-hydrogen batteries for lithium-ion It is the 229th spacewalk from the ISS and the eighths walk … Read more
NASA designs necklace that simulates a nudge when a person attempts to touch their face to help limit the spread of the coronavirus NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is helping people avoid hand to face contact The agency’s wearable omits a pulse when the wearer tries to touch their face It has a proximity sensor and … Read more
Artificial intelligence will help scientists search for signs of ancient life on Mars and other planets thanks to work by NASA scientists in training the system. The European Space Agency (ESA) Rosalind Franklin ‘ExoMars’ rover will be the first to have the new AI system when it leaves for the Red Planet in 2022/2023. Allowing … Read more
NASA has released an incredible video showing a 10-year time-lapse of the Sun in glorious 4K. The video shows one photo of the Sun per second for every day of the last 10 years, thereby condensing a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes. The photos come from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a spacecraft launched a … Read more
A fleet of steam powered robots could one day be used to explore the moons of Jupiter and Saturn by ‘taking giant leaps across their frozen landscapes’. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers are developing small football sized spherical robots equipped with steam powered thrusters for future exploration. If they ever move beyond the initial concept … Read more
NASA Mars 2020 mission is DELAYED again due to a contamination issue found in ground equipment NASA was forced to delay its Mars 2020 mission due to a contamination issue The new date is July 22 at 9:35 ET and the rocket will leave from Cape Canaveral This is the second time the launched was … Read more
NASA is inviting ‘innovative designers’ to come up with an idea for a ‘Lunar Loo’ – a toilet that will work in the microgravity of space and on the surface of the Moon. Using the crowdsourcing platform HeroX, NASA hopes to find a solution that will let astronauts get some relief when they return to … Read more
ALIENS could be living inside Jupiter’s moon Europa, say scientists as they find salty ice-covered ocean that ‘contains all the ingredients for life’ Researchers in California created simulations of Europa’s past geochemistry They found that minerals in the moon may have broken down to release water This water then formed a salty ocean that could be ‘quite … Read more
NASA is renaming its Washington DC headquarters in honor of the first black female engineer to work at the American space agency – the ‘Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building.’ Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, started her career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. While … Read more