space

SpaceX testing Raptor engine, 3 times more powerful than current SpaceX engines, will enable manned Mars missions

Posted in Hardware on 10th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Raptor engine will power a next-gen rocket.

13 Cubesats to launch to moon in 2018 including Skyfire and Lunar Flashlight to look for ice and resources

Posted in Hardware on 10th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Game-changing capability for expanded human exploration, planetary science and physics.

Ocean sediment sample holds iron believed to be from a supernova

Posted in Science on 10th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Sediment layers may contain a type of iron that came from space millions of years ago, iron-60, which prior research has shown is spewed into space when supergiant stars explode.

Are we looking for Martian life in all the wrong places?

Posted in Science on 9th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Organic compounds that may have existed in/on rocks located on the surface of Mars would have been degraded by radiation from the Sun.

Moon Express will spread your ashes on the moon, for a price

Posted in Science on 8th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

'We already have a long list'