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Space in Africa, in collaboration with the African Union Commission and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Côte d’Ivoire, is organising the second edition of the NewSpace Africa Conference, its second high-level conference gathering industry leaders, academia, national space agencies and other critical stakeholders to share insights and ideas for the growth and …

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In a news release by CNN, scientists have named two unprecedented minerals uncovered on earth in a 15.2-metric-ton meteorite found in a 70-gram piece of meteorite unearthed in Somalia in 2020. According to the University of Alberta, it is the ninth-largest meteorite to be discovered. The curator of the university’s meteorite collection, Chris Hurd, obtained …

Scientists have Identified Two New Minerals Found in a 15-ton Meteorite that Crashed in Africa. Read More »

    The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks. Newborn stars “feed” at a furious rate and grow through surprisingly frequent feeding frenzies, a recent analysis of data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows. Outbursts from stellar babies at the earliest stage of development – when …

Baby Star ‘Burps’ Tell Tales of Frantic Feeding, NASA Data Shows Read More »

    Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors. Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close. Located about 250 million light-years from Earth in the center of another galaxy, it was …

NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Snacking on Star Read More »

On the 9th of January, 2023, the Republic of Djibouti signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited and Touchroad International Holdings Group to develop an international commercial spaceport in the northern Obock Region of Djibouti. This serves as a preliminary agreement between the parties to build a spaceport which is …

Djiboutian Government signs MoU with HKATG to Build a USD 1 billion Spaceport in Djibouti Read More »

2022 WJ1 was a tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth. But astronomers saw it coming, and NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system calculated where it would hit. In the early hours of Saturday, Nov. 19, the skies over southern Ontario, Canada, lit up as a tiny asteroid harmlessly streaked across the sky high …

NASA Program Predicted Impact of Small Asteroid Over Ontario, Canada Read More »

On Saturday, 17th December, 2022, Galaxy Aerospace Ghana organized a Space Civilization Carnival; Gravity 1.0 to create the awareness about our Vision and desire in taking Ghana to Space by 2030 the first of its kind in Ghana. Students from the Galaxy Tech. Foundation and our team participated in the carnival that was held at …

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The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the 2023 launch date. NASA announced Friday the agency decided its Psyche mission will go forward, targeting a launch period opening on Oct. 10, 2023. Earlier this year, Psyche missed its planned 2022 launch period as a result of mission …

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The agency’s Perseverance rover will establish the first sample depot on Mars. The next step in the unprecedented campaign to return scientifically selected samples from Mars was made on Oct. 19 with a formal agreement between NASA and its partner ESA (European Space Agency). The two agencies will proceed with the creation of a sample …

NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth Read More »

Cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost are all part of the Red Planet’s coldest season. When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into a truly otherworldly holiday scene. Snow, ice, and frost accompany the season’s sub-zero temperatures. Some of the coldest of these occur at the planet’s poles, where it gets as low …

NASA Explores a Winter Wonderland on Mars Read More »