🚀 Space
Space is the final frontier and is now being opened to everyone thanks to front runners such as NASA and now SpaceX and Elon Musk, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.
🌬️ Ozone hole closing help southern jet stream return to normal
The ozone hole is the smallest on record since its discovery, which helps the jet stream to return to normal.
👩🚀👨🚀These two explorers could be the first humans on Mars
Tina and Tom Sjogren are explorers. They've climbed Mount Everest, gone back-to-back to the North- and the South Pole, but sort of ran out of new challenges on Earth. Instead, they are looking up in space, more specifically to Mars.
🛰 SpaceX launches Starlink Satellite Constellation, breaks Record for Falcon 9 re-use
This marks the Falcon 9 booster's fifth launch to space.
☄️ Scientists may have found the first extraterrestrial protein in a meteorite
A team of scientists believes they have discovered the first extraterrestrial protein known to humanity. Using a new analysis technique, the researchers claim to have found the out-of-this-world discovery inside a meteorite that fell to Earth some 30 years ago.
🛰️ NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
In an incredible feat of remote engineering, NASA has fixed one of the most intrepid explorers in human history. Voyager 2, currently some 11.5 billion miles from Earth, is back online and resuming its mission to collect scientific data on the solar system and the interstellar space beyond.
🚀 Mars missions are ramping up in 2020
Martian exploration is kicking into high gear this year. At this time, there are FOUR different missions slated to send new spacecraft to our neighboring planet, and they are all aiming for July launches.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's guide to optimism
He has written the bestseller An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth, and here now is his guide to optimism.
📡 Final testing of China's extra-terrestrial seeking radio telescope is finishing up.
At 500 meters in diameter, China's gigantic Aperture Spherical Telescope [https://www.space.com/33357-china-largest-radio-telescope-alien-life.html] is off to a great start and is poised to hit the ground running! Located in southern China's Guizhou province, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope has been
Scientist plan a new mission to Pluto, now to orbit the planet
🛰️ NASA’s New Horizons mission taught us a lot about Pluto, but the spacecraft sped past so quickly. The next step is an orbiter, and now NASA is starting to seriously consider one. NASA has given theSouthwest Research Institute [https://www.swri.org/](SwRI) funding to start developing the idea.