Shenzhen is a city that holds a special place in my heart. Having spent around six years of my life in Mainland China, around five of them were in the southern metropolis just across the border from ...

NASA Perseverance rover is now on Mars and busily collecting samples, storing the specimens in tubes, then depositing those tubes on the surface for later pick-up. Image credit: NASA. NASA’s ...

The ISS is too large to entirely burn up in the atmosphere. Image credit: NASA. NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently ...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing of ...

The massive rocket that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk positioned as the vehicle that will bring astronauts to the Moon and eventually Mars took flight on Saturday (November 18), approximately seven months ...

Simulated space ship is at the core of the SIRIUS-23 mission in a 360-day isolation experiment. Image credit: IBMP. This week, Russia will launch stage 4 of the SIRIUS Project, a 360-day isolation of ...

Singapore-based Qosmosys has raised $100 million USD to develop a new lunar transportation vehicle, the company recently announced.

DAVINCI will provide the first first-hand look of Venus’s surface. Image credit: NASA. Work is underway on developing a literal “new entry” in deciphering the origin, evolution, and present state of ...

Space mining startup AstroForge just got a little bit closer to achieving their goal of mining asteroids for precious metals, after announcing in a press release shared with SpaceRef on Wednesday, ...

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. Sent skyward earlier this month, NASA’s outbound Psyche spacecraft is making its way to a unique asteroid of the same name. The asteroid is supposedly sporting a ...

Illustration of Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-1 spacecraft, demonstrating a water-based propulsion system in low-Earth orbit. Image credit: NASA. NASA recently announced its latest challenge with ...

Artist’s concept of huge Orbital Launch System as foreseen by SpinLaunch, site location yet to be determined. Image credit: SpinLaunch. Leave behind those rocket fuel tanks that are topped off with ...