September 18th, 2025
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The quest for human permanence on the Moon, that grimy, rock-laden and crater-pocked world, would be made smoother by the presence of mini-highways. These special paths could handle back-and-forth traffic, while limiting exposure to the pervasive lunar dust that plagued Apollo astronauts. Progress is being made on establishing thoroughfares on the Moon, to not only […]
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Volcanic emissions of reactive sulfur gases on early Mars may have made for a unique Martian environment. If so, that environment on the Red Planet could have been hospitable to certain forms of life. That is one output from new research led by geoscientists at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. This finding comes […]
The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) released a new report titled “Redshift: The Acceleration of China’s Commercial and Civil Space Enterprise and the Challenge to America.” The CSF document offers a thorough review of China’s civil and commercial space activities over the past decade following the announcement of their “Space Dream” and implementation of the Belt […]
ARVADA, Colorado – Lunar Outpost, a private space company, is putting the pedal to the metal on its lunar terrain vehicle (LTV), a large rover that Artemis astronauts will use to wheel across the moon’s dusty, crater-pocked landscape. A tour of the Lunar Outpost’s Mission Control here offered an up-close look at the status of […]
China’s Shenzhou-20 crew onboard the country’s Tiangong space station continue to advance a series of scientific experiments and perform other tasks. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) the station trio have used laptops and specialized software to complete fine motor control and metacognitive monitoring experiments. Brain research The taikonauts also collected data with […]
Mars Guy focuses on the possible evidence for ancient life on the Red Planet. “Perseverance has not found aliens or even a fossilized bone,” explains Mars Guy, “but as detailed in a newly released paper and announced by NASA this week, it may have found evidence for long dead microbes that lived in the mud […]
This visualization simulates what the crew of Artemis II might see out the window on the day of their closest approach to the Moon. The video compresses 36 hours into a little more than a minute as it flies the virtual camera on a realistic trajectory that swings the spacecraft around the Moon’s far side. […]
How best to restore public trust through transparency and whistleblower protection regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)? That was the core question seeking answers in a September 9 congressional House of Representatives hearing, held by the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. “This is about national security, government accountability, and the American people’s right […]
China’s powerful Long March-10 carrier rocket intended to support the country’s humans-to-the-Moon effort has successfully completed its second static fire test. The September 12 test firing was held at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, all seven YF-100K engines were fired up, followed […]
The International Space Station will be the on-orbit test site for a Capture Bag system to snag space debris. Aerospace startup TransAstra Corporation has developed the system, capable of trapping objects of different shapes and sizes, even debris that is tumbling. For the ISS investigation, the Capture Bag will be inflated inside Voyager Technologies’ […]
