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07/15/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Green thumb in space: NASA has decided that gardening in space is crucial for the next generation of explorers

Aside from having to adjust to an environment that’s vastly different from Earth’s, future explorers will have to learn how to grow their own food so they can have access to vegetables while they’re exploring space. However, this isn’t as easy as cultivating a garden in your backyard. In space, astronauts will have to deal […]

06/24/2018 / By Janine Acero

Magnetic waves in the Sun are responsible for the heating of its atmosphere and propelling solar winds

The Sun is the source of energy that sustains all life on Earth. Despite numerous studies about its properties and activities, much remains unknown about our nearest star. The Sun’s outermost layer, called the corona, can reach temperatures of up to 3.5 million degrees Fahrenheit (two million degrees Celsius), more than 20 times hotter than its […]

06/12/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA thinking about performing a flight test of a nuclear reactor to the moon by the mid-2020s

Now that NASA has finished testing its new nuclear reactor on the ground, it is aiming its sights a lot higher. The space agency is considering fitting the Kilopower system onto a moon-bound lander for its first flight test in the middle of the 2020s, an article in Space News states. In a recent press conference, NASA officials […]

06/11/2018 / By David Williams

Phoning home from space: NASA’s Deep Space Network makes it possible

Have you ever wondered how exactly the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) manages to retrieve all of the data and information it gathers in space through its various probes, satellites, orbiters, and rovers? If you guessed that it uses one of the most advanced and most sophisticated communication systems ever devised, you guessed right. […]

06/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Astronomers plan to intercept and collect debris from the next interstellar object to visit the solar system after asteroid ‘Oumuamua

Even as the very first interstellar visitor to our solar system bids us farewell, astronomers are already planning a warmer welcome for the next such guest. According to a Space.com article, the next asteroid to go our way will be met by a spacecraft that will shoot it and collect the resulting debris for analysis. […]

05/29/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA to award first contract for its lunar “Gateway” program by early 2019

NASA is making significant headway in its plan to return humans to the Moon. In a Bloomberg report, the space agency will issue the initial contract for its lunar “Gateway” program in 2019. “Gateway” is the nickname of the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, the planned space station that NASA will use to study the moon and the conditions […]

05/24/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA is set to make an announcement about its “Kilopower” nuclear project soon

NASA is almost ready to reveal its “Kilopower” project to the world. According to a report from the Independent, the space agency will soon be holding a press conference to discuss the fruits of its research into nuclear power systems for spacecraft and outposts. Kilopower is a plan to develop small nuclear reactors that can provide plenty […]

05/11/2018 / By David Williams

NASA starts space study to see if sperm can still function in weightless environments

Do sperm squirm the same way in space? That’s an interesting question that’s posed by the leading scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which aims to learn exactly how sperm will function when placed out in space. To conduct this highly serious research work, NASA’s scientists have gone back to the basics […]

05/02/2018 / By David Williams

NASA’s past missions helping future become reality: Project Mercury paved the way for planned commercial human space exploration

The U.S. was among the first countries in the world to conduct any real space missions. In fact, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been active for a few decades now, and ever since the earliest space missions, they’ve been taking notes, gathering information, and analyzing data. Throughout all these years, the space agency has made sure […]

04/01/2018 / By David Williams

Anticipating visitors? The moon is set to receive its own mobile phone network next year

If and when humans do land on the moon to start a colony there, how is everyone going to communicate wirelessly? Here on Earth, people rely on mobile phone networks that are scattered but interconnected all across the planet. A similar system is now going to be built on the moon as well, thanks to […]

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