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Astronauts are Going to Attach a “Robot Hotel” to the Outside of the International Space Station
The Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS) unit recently launched for the ISS, where it will be integrated and provide a home…
A Microorganism With a Taste for Meteorites Could Help us Understand the Formation of Life on Earth
A new study by a team astrobiologists shows how certain types of extreme bacteria thrive on meteors, which could reveal…
Luca Parmitano Takes the Wheel and Test Drives a Rover From Space.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano just completed the second round of tests where he remotely-controlled a rover on Earth from the…
Using Balloons to Launch Rockets
LEO Aerospace is developing a "Rockoon" system that will provide commercial launch services for microsatellites, as well as a platforms…
Giant Meteor Impacts Might Have Triggered Early Earth’s Plate Tectonics
A new study by an Australian-US team has found that a large impact that happened ca. 3.2 billion years ago…
Messier 94 – the Cat’s Eye Galaxy
Located in the constellation Canes Venatici, roughly 15 million light years from Earth, is the spiral galaxy known as the…
Cancer Seems to Have Trouble Spreading in Microgravity
A team of Australian researchers have found evidence that microgravity can disrupt the spread of cancer cells, which could lead…
There’s Now an Operational Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
The Chang'e-4 satellite (Queqiao) recently deployed the NCLE radio observatory, a joint Netherlands-Chinese experiment that will probe the early Universe.
There Could be Planets Orbiting Around Supermassive Black Holes
A team of scientists from Japan have theorized that planetary systems could form around Supermassive Black Holes.
Using Bacteria to Build a Base on Mars
A researcher, whose work is supported by the ESA and NASA, has developed an idea for using bacteria to help…