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04/10/2018 / By David Williams
DARPA is focusing on space as a the new great battlefront
After many years of mainly Earth-bound inventions and innovations, could it finally be time for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to set its sights elsewhere, particularly space? Regardless of whether you think it’s a worthy exercise or not, the agency itself appears to have found clear reasons to engage the endeavor. Indeed, as […]
01/31/2018 / By David Williams
Earth’s latest satellite comes in the form of giant disco ball called “Humanity Star” designed to create a “shared experience” for everyone
The next unidentified flying object you see in the night sky might surprise you if you try to look close enough. U.S. spaceflight startup Rocket Lab has successfully managed to add yet another satellite to Earth after it launched a rocket of its own into orbit. According to the information coming from the company itself, […]
01/19/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield
Video game orbital lasers come to life: Chinese engineers propose to zap space debris out of orbit with giant lasers
After decades of sending rockets and satellites into space, low Earth orbit has since become polluted with all manner of orbital debris. Also known as space junk, it’s believed that there are well over 170 million pieces of orbital debris circling the earth, all of which are fragments of missions onto space. Currently, space agencies […]
12/27/2017 / By Rita Winters
New spacesuit could save astronaut lives with a “take me home” button could be ready in 5 years, making space walks safer
One of the benefits of being an astronaut is that you get to “walk” in space. Free from the tethers of gravity and terrain, astronauts get to explore weightlessness with the best possible view of our planet and the solar system. If you’ve watched the 2013 movie, “Gravity,” a spacewalk is one of the most […]
04/04/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson
NASA reveals “supermassive” black holes are cruising through space at five million miles an hour
Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole blazing its way through space at a speed of approximately five million miles an hour. At this speed, it could cover the distance between the moon and the Earth in only three minutes (as a reference, Apollo missions take around three days to reach the moon. The fastest […]
07/25/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia
Is Russia about to start a nuclear arms race in space? This craft makes you think so
(USA Features) Practically since the dawn of the nuclear age the great powers have striven to keep atomic weapons out of space, but Russia appears ready to disregard that with the development of a new spacecraft that is capable of delivering nuke-tipped missiles anywhere in the world within a few hours. As reported by The Daily […]
04/18/2016 / By Greg White
NASA responds to existential threat of huge asteroids by opening Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Earth is overdue for an asteroid impact on par with the one that killed the dinosaurs. In an effort to keep this existential threat at bay, NASA founded a new asteroid detection program dubbed the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The PDCO is an organization designated to coordinate all of NASA’s efforts to identify and […]
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