NASA is looking for volunteers willing to be trapped inside a simulated Martian environment that’s roughly the size of a two-bedroom apartment for a full year. The space agency is now accepting applications for its second edition of CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), which is scheduled to take place in spring 2025. The deadline … Read more
A new map of subsurface water on Mars just dropped, and it reveals regions on the Red Planet where ice may be buried beneath the surface for future astronauts to use. The HP Spectre Fold: One Device, Three Modes, All Meh This week, the NASA-funded Subsurface Water Ice Mapping project (SWIM) released its fourth set … Read more
NASA is considering alternative ways to bring back samples from Mars after its budget and schedule for the sample return mission was deemed unrealistic in a recent report by an independent review board. China’s Plan to Land Astronauts on the Moon During a meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group held earlier this week, … Read more
A pair of spacecraft is undergoing final testing before a roughly 230 million mile journey to explore the Red Planet. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope This week, Rocket Lab announced that the two spacecraft it is building for NASA’s EscaPADE mission have gone into the system integration phase in preparation for launch in … Read more
All year long, there’s been ongoing considerations about the usage of generative AI throughout varied types of leisure comparable to movie and TV. Each trade has their very own stance on the matter, and within the case of tabletop video games, it’s fairly divisive: some within the trade have put restrictions on AI-made merchandise, whereas … Read more
To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Mars Categorical Orbiter, the European Area Company broadcast the first-ever Mars livestream, in a historic occasion that unfolded over an hour on Friday, June 3. A newly launched animation reveals a sped-up model of how the livestream unfolded. Astronomers Might Quickly Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their … Read more