18 Apr 2021, 05:27 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / On Saturday, April 17th, the Soyuz crew members, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov returned to Earth.
17 Apr 2021, 05:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / NASA announces SpaceX has landed the $2.89 billion contract to build the lunar lander, which will be based on the Starship rocket
16 Apr 2021, 14:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Christopher Morrison from the Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation imagines an atomic spacecraft that could chase distant asteroids for long periods of time
16 Apr 2021, 12:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases an interactive map of the region on Mars where the Perseverance rover is currently located; it traveled just 0.17 miles in two months
16 Apr 2021, 11:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The launch of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission pushed back two days to April 22; it's the first private capsule to carry two foreigners on board
15 Apr 2021, 14:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Engineer comes up with a technology meant to reinforce and fuse lunar surface materials and allow safe landings for future missions
14 Apr 2021, 15:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The aptly-named Titan Sample Return Using In-Situ Propellants spacecraft could use locally-available substances to make its own fuel
14 Apr 2021, 09:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Astrobotic says it selected SpaceX and the Falcon Heavy rocket for the launch of the Griffin lander carrying the NASA VIPER rover to the Moon in 2023
13 Apr 2021, 13:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / FarView is the name of a proposal for a lunar low-frequency radio observatory meant to look as far back as 370,000 years after the Big Bang
13 Apr 2021, 07:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA engineers working to find a fix for the issues of the Ingenuity helicopter, changes should be easy but their validation will take some time
12 Apr 2021, 12:07 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Only twelve people have set foot on the moon, and all of them have been men. Now it is the turn of the first person of color and first woman to make history.
12 Apr 2021, 11:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's NIAC program backs the Light Bender, a technology meant to capture the light from the Sun and then beam it to where it is needed on the Moon
12 Apr 2021, 07:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the planned Ingenuity flight on April 11 did not take place on account of a watchdog timer expiration signalling a possible fault
10 Apr 2021, 06:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The research center offers regular missions to open-call crew, with the goal of conducting a wide range of psychological, medical and sustainability studies
9 Apr 2021, 14:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA makes the Ingenuity helicopter spin its blades for the first time on Mars, getting ready to take to the sky on April 11
9 Apr 2021, 13:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sensing with Independent Micro-Swimmers are tiny robots meant to be deployed in the under-surface oceans of Enceladus, Titan, or Europa
9 Apr 2021, 09:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory envisions a floating transport system for the needs of the future base there
8 Apr 2021, 15:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The borebots are part of a study meant to find ways to dig deeper under the surface of the Red Planet in search of signs of life
8 Apr 2021, 14:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first flight of a helicopter on an alien planet is scheduled for the end of this week; NASA to air the developments on several media channels
8 Apr 2021, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's OSIRIS spacecraft completed its last flyby of asteroid Bennu, Earth now waiting for the captured images to make it back home