Lockheed Martin, Nanoracks and Voyager Space have just entered into a partnership to launch a commercial space station by 2027. Named Starlab, the semi-inflatable platform will be available for the US government and private industry. The goal is for it to be permanently inhabited. With the Internat

The recently launched Lucy mission will take on the task of exploring Jupiters Trojan asteroids, leading to a new understanding of these strange objects. While waiting for the spacecraft to reach its first targets, todays close-up of some of the asteroids of all shapes and sizes already visited or s

The Roscosmos boss recently said that SpaceXs Crew Dragon ship is safe enough to carry Russian cosmonauts. By 2022, mixed crews could then be possible, both in SpaceX capsules, but also in Russian Soyuz. During a press conference held in Dubai during the 72nd International Astronautical Congress on

It is difficult to grasp the magnitude of Jupiters Great Red Spot as the storm is so big. It turns out that this huge vortex isnt just wide:its also much deeper than expected. Wedged between two conveyor belts that move in opposite directions leading it to evolve counter-clockwise, Jupiters Great R

In the journal Nature, a NASA team calls for a methodical approach to identifying extraterrestrial life. In their paper, the group of researchers suggests the establishment of a confidence of life detection (CoLD) scale. Are we alone in the universe? This is perhaps one of the greatest questions in

The four astronauts of the Crew-2 mission, including Thomas Pesquet, will have to go without a toilet during their return trip to Earth. Everyone will be able to relieve themselves in underwear provided for this purpose. Its leaking in the ship According to a statement from NASA officials on Octobe

Lagging behind SpaceX despite the recent success of the first flight of its New Shepard launcher, Blue Origin suffers another setback. In an essay about company culture, about 20 current and former employees cite safety concerns, sexist attitudes and a lack of company commitment to the future of the

Winds in the outermost lane of Jupiters Great Red Spot are picking up, reveal eleven years of Hubble observations. For the time being, the reasons for this development are unknown. Details of the study are published in the Geophysical Research Letters. The Great Red Spot has been around for over 40

Before it can study the first stars and galaxies or characterize nearby exoplanets, the James Webb Telescope will first have to survive its launch. This will be followed by a long sequence of deployment in deep space before returning to its observation post:the Lagrange L2 point. A few weeks ago, e

Landsat 9, a NASA satellite developed to monitor the land surface of our planet, was successfully launched this Monday, September 27 from California. It will work in tandem with Landsat 8 to continue the essential role of this program in monitoring, understanding and managing Earths resources. Land

NASA plans to suspend most activities on its Mars missions in a few days for safety reasons related to the position of the planet. This vacation should last about two weeks. However, all of these robots will be able to perform some alone operations on Mars while waiting for the return of communicati

New observations of comet C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein, which is currently heading into the inner Solar System, suggest that its core is about 150 km long wide. It is therefore officially the largest comet ever discovered. Also known as Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, Comet C/2014 UN271 was

The Air Forces X-37B spaceplane just spent another 500 days in Earth orbit conducting experiments. Some objectives have been communicated, others are still classified. At this time, it is unknown when and where OTV-6 will return to Earth. A mysterious military drone In the vast arsenal of the Penta

The United Arab Emirates is preparing an ambitious new mission to visit several objects in an asteroid belt in the early 2030s. They plan to land softly on one of these rocks as early as 2033. To date, only two countries have achieved this feat. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has prided itself for

NASA has just completed a review of its historical records that may incriminate James Edwin Webb, former administrator of the agency, in cases of homophobic discrimination. The James Webb Telescope, named in his honor, will eventually keep his name. NASA is preparing to ship its new gem, the James

A team of astronomers suspects the presence of a gas giant planet inside the GW Orionis system. If the discovery were to be confirmed, it would be the first isolated world orbiting three stars. Details of the study are published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. A particular

World View Enterprises invites you to reserve a seat for a ride in the stratosphere aboard its Explorer capsule. You still have to have the means:count around 50,000 US dollars per seat. In June 2020, the American start-up Space Perspective unveiled its first plans to offer high-altitude balloon tr

As part of the Artemis III mission which will again see Americans land on the Moon, astronauts will be dressed in new space suits. The latter, given the delay and costs involved in developing these custom mini-vessels over the past few years, will eventually be leased to the private sector, the US a

The drive to establish a colony on Mars comes up against a difficult problem to overcome:building materials. Transporting these from Earth is far too expensive. Recently, researchers have proposed on-site constructions with blood, sweat, tears and urine. Unable to transport materials from Earth Tra

An international team of astronomers reports having identified the presence of ionized calcium in the atmosphere of WASP-76b, a hot Jupiter already known for its extreme environment. The discovery suggests that this exoplanet is even hotter than previously thought. Details of the study are published