The first ever commercial space hotel, Voyager Station, aims to open by 2027. Accommodating 280 guests and 112 crew members, the project is being planned by Orbital Assembly Corporation, a construction company run by John Blincow. The station will be OAC’s … Read More
China’s Zhurong rover, which landed on Mars on May 14, has sent a new batch of images to Earth — including a “family photo” featuring the rover together with its rocket-powered landing platform posing for a camera on the rock-covered surface. From an epic panorama to … Read More
Jupiter is a secretive swirl of coffee and cream. We’re only beginning to understand the stories that lie beneath its undulating cloud bands. Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, has played a crucial role in solving these mysteries. The probe’s JunoCam has been … Read More
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has taken its first photo and video of the Sun. The images are the highest-resolution views of our star ever taken, revealing details on the Sun’s surface as small as 18 miles across. The … Read More
Although Mars has a lot of wind and dust devils, it’s not really famous for its clouds like Earth is. This is one of the reasons why NASA’s Curiosity rover’s images of Martian clouds are so beautiful. Scientists had noticed … Read More
On Wednesday, NASA announced two new missions to Venus that will launch at the end of the decade to learn how Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor turned into a hellscape while our own thrived. “These two sister missions both aim to … Read More