For the First Time, DNA has Been Edited with CRISPR in Space
Humans may not be able to burp properly in space, but we can now edit a genome. For the first time, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS)…
Category: Space
The US president, Donald Trump, has stuck to his plan to send humans back to the moon in the next five years, recently giving the project a US$1.6 billion shot… Read More
Vice President Mike Pence announced this week that the Trump administration wants NASA to put American astronauts on the moon no later than 2024. And here at… Read More
The second-largest asteroid to hit Earth in the last 30 years went undetected, until now. Read More
A day after its launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX’s uncrewed Crew Dragon spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station, CNN reported on Sunday. Read More
Elon Musk’s Space Car Has Racked Up Way More Miles Than Any Car in History
A little over a year ago, SpaceX launched a 27-engine rocket, the Falcon Heavy, carrying a payload with Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster (and Starman) aboard. In…
One of the lesser-known achievements of the Cold War-era Space Race is the Soviet successes in landing probes on the incredibly harsh and unforgiving surface of Venus,… Read More
Israel’s privately built Beresheet lunar lander is currently en route to the Moon–and tucked away on it is a small disk that’s crammed with 30 million pages… Read More
NASA has given the green light for Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch the first unmanned test of its seven-seat Crew Dragon capsule on March 2 after passing… Read More
The 50-acre Boca Chica, Texas facility where Elon Musk’s SpaceX is testing the prototype version of its Starship rocket–recently in the news for tipping over in high… Read More