It’s a moment that has been decades in the making. The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s premier observatory of the next decade, is scheduled for December 18 from French Guiana. The telescope has endured years of delays, […]
The highly anticipated landing of the first woman and the first person of color on the moon will have to wait. Due to a delay caused by litigation with Blue Origin, as well as other factors — including the pandemic […]
DUBAI: Russia has blazed a new trail in space, developing technology that will soon enable advertising high above the Earth as early as next year, and shooting a full-length feature film at the International Space Station (ISS). Participating in ‘Russia: […]
DUBAI: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced that it has selected SpaceX as launch provider to deliver MBZ-SAT, the most advanced commercial satellite in the region in the field of high-resolution satellite imagery, into space. The second Emirati […]
DUBAI: Expo 2020 Dubai visitors can blast off on a fascinating voyage through space missions and future explorations with the Space Walk journey, which celebrates and brings alive humanity’s relationship with the final frontier. Using technology and immersive techniques, the […]
DUBAI: The Senior Director and Project Manager of Emirates Mars Mission, Omran Sharaf, is also the Director of the Programmes Management Department at the UAE Space Agency’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre gave some insights on space missions. Working with […]
Astronomers have picked up a bizarre set of radio signals coming from the centre of our Milky Way. Experts are particularly confused by this set of signals because they don’t match any known astrophysical radio source. Ziteng Wang from the […]
DUBAI: Expo launches Space Week in the upcoming days, presenting an array of content, discussions, and more that will probe the benefits, solutions, and challenges of exploring beyond our planet’s orbit. The out-of-this-world event, which runs from October 17-23 and […]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates Space Agency announced the commencement of a new Emirati interplanetary mission, designed to further accelerate the young nation’s space engineering, scientific research, and exploration capabilities and drive innovation and opportunity in the country’s private sector. […]
After last month’s empty attempt, NASA’s Mars rover may have successfully gathered its first rock sample. Adam Steltzner, the Mars rover Perseverance rover’s chief engineer, called it a perfect core sample. “I’ve never been happier to see a hole in […]
Imagine having a party in a zero-gravity environment? Astronauts made it possible as they were aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of a ‘pizza party.’ Thomas Pesquet, a French astronaut who often gives the world via his […]