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Two 10th grade girls from India made national headlines after discovering an Earth-bound asteroid. According to CNN, Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya made the discovery while working on a school project in which students use special software to analyze images captured by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. The project is part of an asteroid search campaign launched by SPACE India in […]
NASA is willing to shell out big bucks to the person who can design a toilet that can function on the moon. NASA has made it clear that it wants the country to return to the moon by 2024. Because this isn’t a quick pitstop, the space agency and HeroX have put up $35,000 in prizes […]
SpaceX has made history. The aerospace manufacturer, founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has officially launched its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft, marking the first time a private company has launched astronauts from American soil. The big event occurred shortly before 3:30 p.m. ET in Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. You can check out […]
Anyone with a bird-feeder knows that squirrels love to steal treats that aren’t meant for them. This moved one former NASA and Apple engineer to come up with a clever way to combat these menaces. YouTuber Mark Rober is famous for answering science questions, building intricate structures, and conducting engineering experiments on his channel. He’s recently been entangled […]
Deadline reports that Tom Cruise and Elon Musk‘s SpaceX are working together on a feature film with NASA that would involve the boundary-pushing actor shooting in outer space. The project is reportedly still in the early stages of development, but it would obviously be the first of its kind. With each installment in the Mission: […]
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will allow the United States to mine the moon for resources. As the Guardian points out, the executive order indicates that the country doesn’t see space as a “global commons,” ignoring the 1979 Moon Treaty. Titled “Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources,” the […]
Late next month a large asteroid is set to buzz past Earth but lucky for you (also me, I guess) it’s not set to hit the planet. If trajectories do change between then and now don’t bother with some “But you told us Complex…” thing because nobody’s going to be worried at that point. According […]
Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician known for her essential work on the nation’s first mission to space and the first landing on the moon, has died at age 101. Johnson was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures, also the title of a nonfiction book. “NASA is deeply saddened by the loss […]
The Broom Challenge is back. People across social media are citing NASA as saying something about special gravitational forces being at work and posting videos of their brooms standing up on their own. Spoiler: That’s not the case. Okay so NASA said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own […]
Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier made history on his third day as a NASA intern. The teen was assigned to examine the variation in the brightness of stars captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Goddard Space Flight Center. He ended up discovering a planet during the assignment. This happened last summer, but NASA only announced the achievement this week after his findings […]
