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autoevolution 21 Apr 2021, 7:33 UTC · by Take a good long look at the photo accompanying this piece. There’s a yellow circle in the middle of the pic, surrounding a speck of black space—that’s where NASA says the Voyager 1 spaceship is located, as seen through the camera of another very distant explorer, New Horizons. 1 photo After more than half of century of space exploration, humankind has five spaceships heading out into interstellar space, and currently at a distance of at lea...

autoevolution RISD Rover Got a Thumbs Up From NASA as Possible Solution for Space Exploration 20 Apr 2021, 7:51 UTC · by Folks, most people know that NASA is one of the leading organizations for space research and exploration. Every year, the organization hosts an event called the Human Exploration Rover Challenge where students and schools compete to show off their best works and ideas. This challenge is part of the Artemis program that NASA is currently involved in. Now, this is a chal...

autoevolution 20 Apr 2021, 14:41 UTC · by Life here on Earth is (still) complex enough that it takes very complicated research procedures and modeling to measure the impact we humans have on ecosystems accurately. Yet people are trying, and almost always, the results are worrying, to say the least. Or, in the case of the research we’re here to talk about now, disastrous. 1 photo In mid-April, a large team of scientists from some of the biggest universities in the world, including Cambr...

autoevolution 20 Apr 2021, 15:44 UTC · by If there is one thing we can say about space exploration, it is that this field of human enterprise sure is packed with crazy ideas. We’ve explored a bunch of them this April during autoevolution’s Space Month and in part thanks to NASA’s recently-announced Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. And we’re not nearly done. 1 photo Coming today from the NIAC world is something called APPLE. That’s not the Apple you think, but short ...

I remember growing up and seeing the stars on a clear night. I would sit for hours on end and wonder what was going on up there. Today, I still do that, but companies like Celestron are helping me get a better view. Power Your Hunt for Alien Life With the Easy-to-Use StarSense Explorer Telescope 20 Apr 2021, 8:34 UTC · by If you’re one of the people that grew up peering into the night sky with nothing more than your God-given 20/20 vision, I got good news for you. By now, you’re proba...

LA-Based CGI Artist Imagines a Future Where Humans Race Vehicles on Mars 20 Apr 2021, 15:27 UTC · by Imagine for a moment that you’re a settler on a growing Mars colony, and you’re a bit bored. Since it’s Saturday, you and a few other members decided to have some fun racing. Remember, you’re on Mars, so all that is bound to be a bit different. One way your race day could unfurl is the way Daniel Trbovic reveals in the gallery and video below. Mr. Trbovic is a CGI artist and photo...

autoevolution 19 Apr 2021, 9:02 UTC · by 1 photo The event was initially supposed to take place on the weekend of April 10 but failed to do so on account of a watchdog timer expiration, a software glitch that prevented the machine from going into flight mode. It took NASA engineers more than a week to come up with a fix after pondering two approaches. The first consisted of “adding a few commands to the flight sequence.” The commands were written relatively fast, but NASA had to put...

autoevolution 18 Apr 2021, 5:27 UTC · by 1 photo Their mission began on October 14th, 2020, when their spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Now, after half a year, the three space travelers are ready to head back to their homes on Earth. On March 19th, the trio boarded the Soyuz MS-17 " for a port relocation maneuver, moving the spacecraft from the Rassvet module to the space-facing port of the Poisk module. The relocation allowed the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft and...

NASA has announced the company that will help land Americans on the surface of the Moon again, and then, hopefully, farther off on other planets and on Mars: SpaceX.

autoevolution 16 Apr 2021, 14:21 UTC · by Back in 2017, a University of Hawaii telescope discovered a strangely-shaped object we ended up calling Oumuamua. Some claimed it was an alien spaceship, others just a piece of interstellar rock that just happened to wander into our solar system, but the sad reality is we’ll never know. 1 photo That’s because the damn thing was too far away to see properly. When first detected, it was at a distance of 21 million miles (33 million km), but it ...