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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 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 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
A Neptune sized gas giant orbiting a star 180 times younger than the Sun has been discovered by astronomers and it could shed light on the evolution of the Earth. The exoplanet was found in a system 32 light-years away and its host star is only 20 to 30 million years old – compared to … Read more
NASA is asking people to explore Mars using images taken of the Red Planet by its Curiosity Rover and help to label rocks and other surface features. The project, known as AI4Mars, is designed to improve an artificial intelligence algorithm that will help future Martian rovers move across the planet’s surface. The simulation was designed … Read more
NASA is asking people to ‘take a virtual tour of Mars’ using images taken of the Red Planet by its Curiosity Rover and help to label rocks and other surface features. The project, known as AI4Mars, is designed to improve an artificial intelligence algorithm that will help future Martian rovers move across the planet’s surface. … Read more
Pluto harbours a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust that has been there for 4.5 billion years – 500 million years longer than Earth’s seas – a study has found. Pluto is known today as a ball of frozen ice and rock orbiting the sun at a distance of 3.7 billion miles. But a new … Read more
Virgin Galactic has signed a new deal with NASA that will see the Richard Branson owned firm prepare future commercial astronauts for flights to the ISS. Under the agreement, Virgin Galactic will develop a new private orbital astronaut training program and look out for potential space tourist candidates. This is a new initiative for the … Read more
NASA proposes 2025 mission to Neptune’s mysterious moon Triton which orbits in the OPPOSITE direction to the planet’s rotation and may host an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust The only craft to study Triton up close to date was Voyager 2 back in 1989 Much of the moon’s surface is unmapped and … Read more