17+ hour, 4+ min ago  (555+ words) KASA: South Korean-built space radiation instrument concludes its 2. 9-year mission A domestically developed space radiation detector, launched into space aboard the Nuri rocket in 2023, has completed its mission after operating for nine months longer than initially planned. During its operational…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (626+ words) A new hypothesis has been proposed suggesting that 'dark matter,' a concept that explains the birth of the universe and the movement of celestial bodies, may exist in two different forms. This concept offers a smoother explanation for cosmic phenomena…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (256+ words) The first mission to send humans to lunar orbit in 54 years, since Apollo 17 in 1972, has successfully concluded. Four NASA Artemis 2 astronauts safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 5: 07 p. m. on the 10th (local time) after…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (347+ words) A satellite image of Earth's eastern hemisphere at night graced the cover of this week's international journal 'Nature'. Gold areas represent regions that have become brighter, purple indicates areas that have dimmed, and white shows places that have experienced both....

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (365+ words) The Korea Aero Space Administration (KASA) and the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced they signed an 'MOU for the Joint Development of Civil-Military Aerospace Projects' at the DAPA headquarters in Daejeon on the 10th and explored detailed measures to build…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (281+ words) Manufacturing time cut 2. 5-fold and costs reduced by 40 percent Private space launch vehicle company INNOSPACE announced on the 9th that it has commercialized a technology for 3 D printing titanium parts without support structures for the first time in Korea, accelerating its…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (176+ words) Private space launch company Innospace is expanding from its core launch services business into satellite development, operations, and data services to build an integrated space platform. Innospace announced on the 7th that it has established a new satellite business division and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (452+ words) A South Korean research team has successfully captured the first-ever observation of a 'wind' that explains the birth process of stars like our Sun. Stars are formed from clumps of gas and dust in space. The stage before a celestial…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (308+ words) NASA's Mars rover, 'Perseverance', has discovered a rock sample in Martian bedrock containing the highest concentration of nickel ever analyzed. A joint NASA Mars exploration research team, including Haley Manelski and Professor Roger Wiens from Purdue University, confirmed high concentrations…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (221+ words) The astronauts of the crewed lunar mission Artemis 2have passed the halfway point between Earth and the Moon. They are now closer to the Moon than to Earth. On the 4th (local time), the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced via…...