Space hotel with artificial gravity by 2025
For the association, the space hotel will be operational by 2025, and will be assembled directly in orbit by robots and drones.
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Is there life on Europa? Two missions to find her
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).
This inflatable habitat is the future of life on Mars
A rigid structure houses an inflatable habitat that can expand in later stages of the journey. The module consists of natural-sized rooms.
Aquanaut, the underwater robot transformer
To explore the seabed and manage ocean platforms, a team of NASA veterans builds a transformer underwater robot that becomes humanoid.
Long live Apollo! 10 technologies of today born from the mission to the Moon
For those who still wonder what served to go to the Moon, here are 10 pieces of modern technology born directly from the Apollo mission.
The astronaut? He is old. Now when you grow up you want to be a YouTuber
It is not a bitter reflection resulting from my stable entry into the - anta, but the result of a survey: today's child wants to be a YouTuber when he grows up.
The first fruit grown on the ISS has a nice temper
The researchers send Capsicum annuum seeds, the chili pepper from Chili, on board. It will be the first fruit grown in space by the ISS astronauts.
Moon? Mars? 4 reasons to focus on asteroids
The world awaits new landings on the moon and then on Mars, but I say: remember the asteroids, here are at least 4 good reasons to do it.
ESA's 'lunar stretcher' to rescue astronauts
ESA tests a rescue system for astronauts on a mission. A 'moon stretcher' that drives like a caddy and brings an injured person back to base.
Methane on Mars: Curiosity finds clues to life
The Curiosity rover has sent data to Earth that seem unequivocal: the presence of methane on Mars, a possible sign of life, is unequivocal.
Here's how China will take the moon
8 and a half billion euros, collaborations with the West and a detailed plan that has already begun and will be completed in record time: in Beijing they mean business.
1000 new exoplanets discovered
Yesterday the number of "alien worlds" that have been discovered by man increased exponentially. There is talk of as many as a thousand new exoplanets. In fact, NASA's "Kepler" satellite, after various problems due to a faulty gyroscope, broke a record. A great result for science and astronomy: many extrasolar planets have been discovered. But let's start from the beginning. Kepler is a telescope satellite launched on March 7, 2009 from Cape Canaveral, with the aim of discovering new extrasolar planets. And yesterday, in a… Read more
SpaceX, on Mars in 2018
Elon Musk is serious, and promises to bring people to Mars by 2018. Very little, if we consider that there are less than two years left. Elon Musk, after creating the space travel company SpaceX, once declared that he wanted to die on Mars: is his dream about to come true? Details of the program are expected to be revealed by Musk himself at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico in September. The announcement is part of a larger project… Read more
Stephen Hawking to discover space
Stephen Hawking doesn't stop, and joins investors and wealthy patrons to discover space. The aim is to find life forms, and to reach Alpha Centauri in a few years. Hawking joined the Russian billionaire and philanthropist Yuri Milner and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the venture: the three announced the launch of one of the most ambitious missions in space exploration, costing around 100 million dollars . The … Read more
The largest giant black hole in the sun
In science fiction films there is never a lack of a black hole, a singularity, something that can resolve the plot perhaps by making our heroes go back in time. But black holes really exist, and just yesterday one of gigantic, frightening dimensions was discovered: 17 billion times the size of our Sun. The discovery was made by Chung-Pei Ma, of the University of California-Berkeley, astronomer and head of the Survey study that examines galaxies and supermassive black holes… Read more
The app that allows you to see is coming
It's called Aipoly and it's an app that allows blind or partially sighted people to "see" what's around them. Aipoly is an artificial intelligence app that allows you to explore the world in a different way, through a technology that communicates what you are framing with a guiding voice, obviously thanks to the use of the smartphone camera. The app currently allows you to identify around 1.000 different objects and 900 colors in real time. Aipoly was presented for the first… Read more
All ready for India on Mars
A few hours before the departure of India's first historic interplanetary mission. After a short delay due to small component problems, the trip to Mars of the vehicle developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) will be a reality. It's just the beginning, they say in New Delhi: with the typical enthusiasm of a nation growing at supersonic speed, ISRO has already declared that it wants to send a human mission by 2016, and this would be just the beginning of a long series of stages necessary for preparation. … Read more
Tefina, Viagra Spray is here for you
Space research has often encountered rather serious problems when trying to reproduce the same conditions on Earth in the absence of gravity. One of the most insurmountable difficulties was that linked to 'space sex'. There is a whole series of cases on the subject: the results are not satisfactory. Looking at our planet can then make us understand that the problems related to sex are many and complex even without leaving our atmosphere. For men, erectile dysfunction, for women,... Read more
Cessna develops an aircraft condom
Okay, maybe it's not quite a full-blown condom, but the concept is very close: NASA has awarded Cessna with a brand new contract to work on a sort of 'protective skin' for airplanes, which would allow aircraft to repair damage 'yourself'. Following initial preparatory studies a year ago, Cessna is studying a special layer of energy-absorbing foam and conductive film that can withstand… Read more
Hansen predicts: the seas will be higher than 7 meters
A chilling prophecy comes to us from James Hansen, 68 years of which almost 30 spent at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies: he almost never makes an observation wrong. In 1981 he wrote that the following decade would mark peak heat and the prediction came true. At the beginning of the nineties he said that the first decade of the new century would beat the previous record and this time too the facts proved him right. Let's hope that now he is wrong because the scenario he draws is... Read more
