We're sending pills into space for longer space missions
For future space missions, a whole new pharmacopoeia will be needed. To figure out how to make drugs in space, we're sending pills to the ISS
For future space missions, a whole new pharmacopoeia will be needed. To figure out how to make drugs in space, we're sending pills to the ISS
Several space missions in 2020 suffered delays. In 2021 the calendar is full of events: someone will go swimmingly, someone else who knows. Here they are.
The gigantic energy of americium and plutonium allows a range of otherwise unreachable space missions: the UK advances rapidly in this direction.
A new propulsion technology that can significantly shorten the duration of space travel enters Phase 1.
NASA has unveiled a range of futuristic and visionary technologies that could be used in future space missions.
Mars is beautiful, but I wouldn't live on it. Also because I could not stay there for more than four years, as a latest scientific study points out.
The EU finally takes initiative to support ESA in finding space launch solutions. The competition is fierce, there is little hope, but we have to start.
Missions to Mars will be the most difficult of those accomplished in the last 60 years of space exploration. The psychological aspect will be decisive.
In just 10 years we will see 2 missions in search of life on Europe, one of the most habitable places in the solar system beyond Earth (except on Saturday evening).
Is airbrushing the key to faster space missions? A solar sail made of this material would take us to Mars in just 26 days.
If current space missions already make us dream, think of the visionary projects that NASA has in the pipeline for the future. Here are 4.
The shape-changing wheel developed by a Korean team has the structure and dynamics of an origami: it will be the future of space missions.
NASA is developing a revolutionary plasma-powered rocket that could take astronauts to Mars in just 2 months instead of the current 9.
Korean scientists develop hybrid rice with beef cells, increasing its protein content by 8% without raising costs.
A collaboration between the American University of Beirut and Stanford brings to light a portable woven antenna, revolutionizing space and terrestrial communications.
An Emirati astronaut will make an Artemis mission: it is not the only UAE contribution to the Lunar Gateway orbital lunar station
Loss of bone density, erectile dysfunction, nail loss: research highlights more and more problems for the human body in space.
A study reveals that Mercury, despite extreme temperatures, may have niches suitable for life, similar to the Atacama Desert.
LignoSat, NASA and JAXA's wooden satellite, passes tests on the ISS, ready to launch in 2024 for a new space age.
Saturn's rings 'disappear' in 2025, but will return visible in 2032
The lunar experiments on cotton plants of the Chinese Chang'e 4 mission bring space agriculture ever closer to reality.