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SpaceX postpones Starlink launch to tomorrow due to “strong upper-level winds”

Praveen Nagaraj - January 27, 2020

Elon Musk's SpaceX is postponing today's launch of 60 internet communication satellites today aboard its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff of the...

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The United States Space Force logo seems to rip off Star Trek’s “Starfleet Command” logo

Praveen Nagaraj - January 25, 2020

United States President Donald Trump unveiled the U.S. Space Force logo on Twitter, Friday afternoon. The logo was designed after consulting with...

Space

This is the reason NASA’S Curiosity Mars Rover suddenly stopped working

Praveen Nagaraj - January 25, 2020

NASA's multi-billion-dollar Curiosity Mars rover suffered a technical glitch that "froze" all operations of the rover on Mars. Curiosity is NASA's only...

Space

NASA is allowing you to vote from these nine names for the Mars 2020 Rover

Praveen Nagaraj - January 22, 2020

NASA has selected the nine finalists' names from three age categories for the upcoming Mars 2020 Rover. The rover is scheduled to...

Space

NASA is retiring one of its most important telescopes next week

Praveen Nagaraj - January 21, 2020

NASA is retiring one of its most important telescopes, the Spitzer Space Telescope, on Jan 30, as the telescope makes its final...

Business

SpinLaunch raises $35M round to build its space catapult launch system

Praveen Nagaraj - January 17, 2020

Space ambitious company, SpinLaunch, has raised $35M funding round to continue its goal of building a "space catapult" launch system. Though SpinLaunch...

World

NASA reveals that the Australia fire smoke is circling the Earth

Praveen Nagaraj - January 16, 2020

The enormous clouds of smoke resulting from the terrible bushfires in Australia have navigated around the globe, and have circled back to...

Space

SpaceX soon may be littering Earth’s orbit with dangerous space debris

Shruthi Bhashini - January 15, 2020

Why 'Starlink'? Though the ambitious nature of SpaceX has dramatically helped to escalate its position in the space race,...

Space

NASA tests its golf-cart sized VIPER, a water-hunting moon rover

Praveen Nagaraj - January 15, 2020

NASA just did a test run on its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER. The golf-cart sized rover is being made...

Space

New Discovery: The oldest material on Earth is older than the solar system

Praveen Nagaraj - January 14, 2020

New analysis of a meteorite has revealed that it contains stardust that formed between 5-7 billion years ago. That is much older...

Space

The first Iranian-American astronaut says that space brings diplomacy and unites us

Praveen Nagaraj - January 13, 2020

Jasmin Moghbeli recently celebrated her astronaut graduation from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The Iranian-American, now-astronaut, had a lot to say...

Space

NASA intern discovers new planet orbiting 2 stars on third day of internship

Praveen Nagaraj - January 11, 2020

NASA announced on Monday that a new planet was discovered orbiting 2 stars approximately 1,300 light-years from planet Earth. The planet, TOI...

Space

New study shoots down the Theory of Dark Energy

Shruthi Bhashini - January 9, 2020

Studies done by researchers from the Yonsei University might disprove the existence of Dark Matter.

Space

Crew Dragon astronauts might use Tesla Model X to arrive at launchpad for ISS mission

Praveen Nagaraj - January 2, 2020

This year will perhaps be the most interesting year in SpaceX history. The private spaceflight company will be launching the first crewed...

Space

Black Holes: The most important breakthroughs of 2019

Praveen Nagaraj - January 1, 2020

Black holes are regions of space that exhibit unimaginably strong amounts of gravitational acceleration. The force acting on particles is so strong,...

Space

SpaceX Starship first flight hopefully to occur in 2-3 months, Elon Musk tweets

Praveen Nagaraj - December 28, 2019

SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, is working on building its deep-space rocket - Starship. When fully assembled, Starship will be capable of...

Technology

Apple has a secret team working on satellites that may connect to your iPhone in 2025

Prabhat Namdharani - December 23, 2019

Apple is known for its stereotype breaking devices, and it has certainly outdone itself if the latest rumors about the company are...

Space

Final countdown of Europe’s Exoplanet Mission interrupted by technical Glitch

Shruthi Bhashini - December 17, 2019

The launch of the CHEOPS exoplanet mission was called off due to a glitch in the automated sequence 1 hour 25 minutes...

Space

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to send marijuana to astronauts on the ISS

Praveen Nagaraj - December 12, 2019

SpaceX is expected to transport cannabis to the astronauts onboard the International Space Station for scientific research. The agri-tech company Front Range...

Space

Planets around Supermassive Black Holes are now possible, research reveals

Prabhat Namdharani - December 2, 2019

Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black hole’s...

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