BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), SEArch+ (Space Explotation Architecture) and the 3D-printed building company ICON are working together in Project Olympus, a NASA-funded initiative to develop robotic construction for the Moon. Working with NASA’s Marshall

Grimshaw Architects   United Kingdom   Un nuevo referente se recorta en el perfil de Leicester. Con sus 42 metros de altura, la torre del Centro Nacional del Espacio se eleva en las proximidades de la ribera del Soar como una hermana transparente y gigantesca del famoso muñeco neumático d

Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which takes constant observations, including images and highly detailed data known as spectra. Its operations have led to a “

Since November 2023, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady radio signal to Earth, but the signal does not contain usable data. The source of the issue appears to be with one of three onboard computers, the flight data subsystem (FDS),

The New York Times   Debra Kamin   Through partnerships and 3-D printing, NASA is plotting how to build houses on the moon by 2040. The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitati

The Guardian   Ian Sample   A portrait assembled from Lego bricks, woodcuts printed in Ukrainian soil and a collection of poetry from every continent are among thousands of works to be archived on the moon as a lasting record of human creativity. The collection, known as the Lu

El País   Rafael Clemente   A new project known as the Habitable World Observatory aims to better understand near-Earth exoplanets and study those that could support life. NASA is contemplating an ambitious project: the Habitable World Observatory (HWO), whose mission is d

Scientific American   Clara Moskowitz   As light travels through space, it gets stretched by the expansion of the universe. This is why many of the most distant objects shine in infrared light, which is longer in wavelength than visible light. We can't see this ancient light with our eyes,

The Guardian   Ed Pilkington   US space agency rejoices after re-entry of spacecraft that should clear way for possible lunar landing of astronauts by 2025. Orion’s return brings to a completion the first flight of Artemis I... The Guardian: Nasa’s uncrewed Orion capsule spla

NASA   Pictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders; movies can bring them to life. Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope are revealing motion and change across the sky. Every six months, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer,

Smithsonian   Margaret Osborne   The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a first step toward defending Earth from threatening space rocks. Traveling at 14,000 miles per hour, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid on Monday evening. But the crash was intentional: NASA mea

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Climate kills, science saves. During this summer of drought and fires, the best news have been scientific. Energy, inflation, and war made the covers, but some of the achievements in science cast light on a troubled world: the James Webb spatial tele

The Guardian   Oliver Milman   Ian Sample   The pictures show elements of the universe as they were 13bn years ago, reshaping our understanding of the cosmos Nasa has released an image of far-flung galaxies as they were 13bn years ago, the first glimpse from the most powerful telescope ever la

The Guardian   Hannah Devlin   The most distant star ever seen has been captured by the Hubble space telescope in images that appear to give a remarkable glimpse into the ancient universe. Light from the star, named Earendel, has travelled an estimated 12.9bn years to reach the Ea

More than half a century after the first space ventures, which left memorable images of the Moon and of our planet – ‘Earthrise’ from Apollo 8 or ‘Blue Marble’ from Apollo 17 still impress us today –, human space exploration takes a step further and

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If the 2020 Christmas gift were the vaccines, a year later science invites us on a journey to the origin of the universe. On 25 December 2021, the James Webb telescope started a journey that will take it 3.5 million kilometers from Earth, from where

Icon 3d prints the first simulated Mars surface habitat for NASA, designed by Big-Bjarke Ingels Group. Mars Dune Alpha, the 3D-printed habitat located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, will aid in long-duration science missions. ICON, deve

Scientific American   Clara Moskowitz   Chris Gunn   As a NASA photographer, Chris Gunn has been documenting the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) from its early days. Since 2009 he has captured every milestone and witnessed nearly all the pieces of the spacecraft being put together and tested. The tel

BBC   Paul Rincon   A spacecraft has launched on a mission to test technology that could one day tip a dangerous asteroid off course. Nasa's Dart mission wants to see how difficult it would be to stop a huge space rock from colliding with Earth. The spacecraft

SciTechDaily   Matt Williams   Given how much of SpaceX’s future hinges on the success of the Starship and Super Heavy launch system, this is certainly good news. This goes beyond replacing their Falcon rocket family with Starships to transport everything from crews and cargo to L

Wired   Shannon Stirone   This image looks like something seen through a microscope, but no, this is a large swath of Martian terrain. This section of the South polar ice cap consists in part of frozen carbon dioxide, which melts over the summer months. The melting carbon dio

NASA   A NASA Centennial Challenges program competition to build a 3D-printed habitat for deep space exploration. The multi-phase challenge was designed to advance the construction technology needed to create sustainable housing solutions for Earth and beyo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We are tourists, and pretend being travelers. Mass tourism used to be depicted with a cruise ship overwhelming the delicate scale of Venetian palazzos, but today the best representation of excess is the exceptional photograph of a jam on the Everest.

Foster + Partners California, in collaboration with Branch Technology, has won first place in Phase 2 and Level 1 of the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge competition organized by NASA and Bradley University (Illinois). The competition calls for extra-ter