When we think of which countries are involved in the space industry, Russia and the United States primarily spring to mind first. According to data from Futron, a technology consultant, Russia has sent 245 and the US 218 rockets successfully into orbit since 1999. However, despite the US being the only nation to fly its [...]

“Where do you fancy going on holiday this year darling, France, Florida, New Zealand, or Space perhaps?” The possibility of being able to tour in space may not be as absurd as it first sounds, as the trend of developing commercial space flight for tourism is rapidly gathering speed. Alongside billionaires that own a luxury [...]

When I was in school, it was drilled into me that there are nine planets in our solar system. When the story emerged recently about a new Earth-like planets orbiting a sun just outside our solar system, I started thinking about our own solar system, and how little we actually know about its outer reaches. [...]

For many Astronomers and star-gazers, discovering a planet like Earth is the stuff of science fiction. Today, that science fiction dream has become a reality, as NASA announced that its Kepler Mission has finally identified the first planet that is about two and a half times the size of Earth and in a similar Earth-like [...]

For breaking news about the cosmos, America tends to look to NASA. However, often times a NASA announcement does not get heard unless the mainstream media picks them up. Even then, the information is only mentioned in passing. Instead of waiting on the media, there are several websites that the avid NASA fan (or critic) [...]

Earlier this month, NASA launched their twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in an effort to study the moon in unprecedented detail. The twin spacecraft will take roughly 3.5 months and cover more than 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) to arrive. This is due to [...]

NASA’s WISE mission has been providing scientists with a plethora of data and information since its launch in 2009. Its most recent discovery is the presents of star-like bodies that have temperatures as cool as the human body and even colder. WISE has discovered one star that is being described as being “room temperature” at [...]

Launched in Feb. 7, 1999, the Stardust mission’s primary goal was to collect samples of a comet and return them to Earth for laboratory analysis. NASA has been studying these samples since 2006, when Stardust first dropped off the comet samples. Thus far, NASA has found some interesting evidence that supports the theory that “a [...]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 Elon Musk, the man behind PayPal and founder of SpaceX, a private spaceflight company, conducted a speech titled “Getting to Mars”. In his speech, the billionaire entrepreneur spoke about how his company was going to get humanity to Mars in the next 20 years. The “Getting to Mars” speech was [...]

On September 8, 2011, NASA is planning to launch the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Leading up to the launch, the space agency is also hosting a two-day “Tweetup” for 150 of its Twitter followers. GRAIL will consist of twin spacecrafts that will fly in tandem around the moon. NASA states the main [...]