NASA has been using its current spacesuits on the International Space Station for many years, and they are beginning to show their age. Not only is NASA struggling to accommodate its increasingly diverse astronaut team, but certain components of the…
The search for evidence of life on distant exoplanets has led us to look beyond our solar system into the vastness of space. A few hundred years ago, however, a distinctive planet was discovered that is relatively close to us.…
Learn more about these amazing inventions which have helped us explore space beyond Earth. From telescopes to rocket launchers, space exploration would not be possible without the advancement in technology. Humankind has dreamed of traveling to the stars for centuries,…
Nature likes spirals – from the whirlwinds of a hurricane to the pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars to the vast regions of spiral galaxies in our Universe. Now astronomers are surprised to find young stars spiraling into the center…
The red object you are seeing in this video could be the farthest galaxy found to date. It has revealed some of the most intriguing secrets of the early universe.
Launched in 2009, the James Webb Space Telescope will observe galaxies at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers in the infrared. It will also look 2.5 million years into the past to study individual stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, our…
We can learn a lot from the early photographs taken by JWST, but what exactly has it taught us? The JWST has released its first images, and they show what it’s capable of. There’s a lot of excitement from astrophysicists…
This question was inspired by Elon Musk’s announcement that he plans to send humans to Mars within the next 50 years. But what would happen if China were to beat him to the punch? Would we ever see Chinese astronauts…
This is the first operational image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, depicting SMACS 0723, a galaxy cluster located 4.6 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation of Volans. Designed for infrared astronomy. It was launched in December 2021…
Let’s talk about how we build things in space. If we are going to become a truly space-faring civilization and a multi-planetary species, then we need to expand our manufacturing infrastructure beyond the surface of the Earth. Take Mars; For…
