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First private-funding mission to the moon to be carried out in 2019

Breathing Moon dust could decimate cells, alter human DNA and cause cancer

Dust on the Moon is widespread and prevalent. It is also electrostatically charged, so it will stick to everything, this includes the insides of lungs. Lunar dust could alter and destroy human tissue to the point where it cannot be recognized anymore.

May 9, 2018

Met Gala 2018: Who is Grimes, Elon Musk's new girlfriend?

Elon Musk walked the Met Gala 2018 red carpet with his new girlfriend Grimes. The couple reportedly bonded over a nerdy joke and have been dating for a month now. Musk's new girl comes months after his breakup with Hollywood actress Amber Heard.

May 8, 2018

NASA advisory body says SpaceX rocket technology so powerful it could risk human lives

NASA is so severely risk-averse that it is being overly conservative in the way it handles astronaut safety because advisers have deemed SpaceX's methods too risky for human spaceflight.

May 6, 2018

Helium spotted in a comet like exoplanet for the first time

The planet is so close to its host star that the atmosphere is getting ripped off and pushed out, making it look like a comet with a long tail of gases pointing away from the star and it has helium in an excited state, making it possible to spot in the IR wavelength.

May 3, 2018

A SpaceX Dragon loaded with about 4,800 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies bound for the International Space Station is targeted to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida

SpaceX Dragon to return 900 kg of experiments from ISS this weekend

The ISS has been running several experiments to prepare humans for long-term spaceflight and three important sets of samples and data are scheduled to come down on board a SpaceX Dragon capsule.

May 2, 2018

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy - most powerful still operational rocket, 'too small' says Boeing

Boeing has made some tall claims regarding their SLS rockets. They say that it will be far more capable than SpaceX's Falcon Heavy which is right now the most powerful rocket in operation.

May 1, 2018

Mysterious light captured in China is not extraterrestrial spaceship

The mysterious light was spotted over several cities in China, cities, including Beijing, Taiyuan, Zhengzhou, and Qingdao. Baffled residents believed that the light could be UFO or extraterrestrial spaceship, but Chinese Academy of Science clarified saying it's neither of them.

Apr 30, 2018

Bezos' Blue Origin makes highest test flight to date, nails the landing

Blue Origin is building a rocket to specifically carry a small group of 6 people to space and back and this test flight is the second one with a used rocket. The rocket reached an altitude of about 106 km then proceeded to reach its landing pad.

Apr 30, 2018

NASA's budget kicks out human exploration of Mars, focus stays on Moon

NASA's current budget is unlikely to support the burden of Mars missions. With the space agency focusing on the Moon, it might be up to Elon Musk to finally take people to the red planet and start a colony there.

Apr 27, 2018

Trapped by gravity? Super-Earth aliens could be imprisoned in their own planets

Life is likely to flourish in super-Earths around the universe as long as they fall within their star's habitable zone, but their large mass will make spaceflight nearly impossible because large planets have excessively strong levels of gravity.

Apr 24, 2018

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, smiles as he attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2018.

Mukesh Ambani, Indira Jaising and Balkrishna Doshi in Fortune's '50 Greatest Leaders'

The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Bill and Melinda Gates and #MeToo Movement were the top-ranked names in the Fortune magazine's '50 Greatest Leaders' list.

Apr 20, 2018

SpaceX launches NASA's TESS to hunt for alien worlds and habitable planets

TESS will look for exoplanets for the next two years, covering 85 percent of the sky and filtering out planets between 30 and 300 light years away.

Apr 19, 2018

What happens to human body in microgravity of Mars and Moon

Mars has less gravity and oxygen than the Earth. So, humans will have weaker muscles and inactivity will further stress spacefarers' body.

Apr 18, 2018

NASA sends sperm into space to study zero-gravity human fertilization

NASA now intends to study if human fertilization will be possible in zero-gravity. This will be the first such experiment in space.

Apr 15, 2018

First ever Antarctic harvest shows how food can be grown on Mars

Salad greens and vegetables were grown and harvested for the first time in Antarctica to study how this can be done on Mars.

Apr 8, 2018

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