The government will soon unveil a new space policy to further increase private participation. This step could see the rise of India’s own ‘SpaceX-like ventures’, state Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, is a private space transportation company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.Read More
The Milky Way galaxy is home to millions of potentially liveable planets, with about four harbouring evil alien civilisations that can conquer Earth, states a new study. Alberto Caballero, the study’s author and a PhD student in conflict resolution at the University of Vigo in Spain, answers the intriguing question of whether humans should fear…
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delayed completing a final environmental assessment of the proposed SpaceX Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket program in Texas until June 13. The agency said in April SpaceX had made multiple changes to its application that required additional FAA analysis.Read More
A new research paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology says that extra-terrestrial civilisations may not need spaceships to travel to another star system. Extra-terrestrial and alien civilisations could employ free-floating planets as interstellar transportation to visit, explore, and colonise planetary systems. These free-floating planets are als…Read More
A multidisciplinary Liver4Life research team from Zurich has developed a special machine that can stretch the lifecycle of human livers. They say the perfusion machine mimics the human body as accurately as possible, in order to provide ideal conditions for the liver.Read More
NASA officials have confirmed the payload integration of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), which is expected to be shipped to India after testing for integration with the satellite and eventually with the launch vehicle. NISAR is a joint earth-observation mission between ISRO and the US space agency NASA.Read More
Researchers working closely with the University of Washington have developed a novel algorithm — known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR — to find and track asteroids that could possess killer impact for our planet. The algorithm has now proved its usefulness by detecting the first candidate asteroids.Read More
The research found an explanation for the structure of the Sun’s chemical composition by taking into account the solar rotation and magnetic fields, which have changed over time.Read More
NASA has announced that it has awarded contracts to two companies to develop the next generation of spacesuits for missions to the International Space Station and the Moon. The values of the contracts have not yet been announced but they have a combined ceiling of $3.5 billion through 2034.Read More
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a low-cost polymer film that can extract atmospheric water in arid environments. The film is flexible and can be moulded into a variety of shapes and sizes. Making the film requires a gel, which has all the relevant ingredients.Read More