Space technology

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Oct. 25 announced it wants to launch a space station that will house up to 10 people in the second half of the decade, as the race to commercialize the cosmos heats up.

Geological feature or an … alien-made structure on the surface of Mars?
Internet chatter was abuzz on Tuesday after photographs taken by NASA’s Curiosity Rover apparently showed what appears to be a pyramid-shaped object on the “Red Planet”.
The pic was taken on May 7 (in earth’s calendar).

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu will pay a visit to London on Tuesday, on which occasion he will have a meeting with his British counterpart Philip Hammond and will participate in a conference on the topic of the ballistic missile defence.

Photo credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES PHOTO

Two US astronauts on March 1 stepped out on the third spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of more commercial spacecraft in the coming years.
      
Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts began the spacewalk at 6:52 am (1152 GMT).
      

Six people have sealed themselves inside a white vinyl dome in Hawaii to embark on an eight-month test of how their mental health might fare during a mission to Mars.
      

Premier Victor Ponta this Friday said during a televised show at the Publika TV channel in Chisinau - Republic of Moldova, that Romania is a country safe from any threats and that it will "never" accept security rules to be imposed on it by someone from outside.

The US military will commission new missile defense base at Deveselu on Friday, where a component of NATO's missile defence shield in Europe will be installed, reads Stars and Stripes US publication, which quotes US military officials.

India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface, as the country glowed with pride Sept. 25 after winning Asia's race to the Red Planet

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft began orbiting Mars on Sunday, on a mission to study how the Red Planet's climate changed over time from warm and wet to cold and dry.

A NASA spacecraft that aims to study the upper atmosphere of Mars and reveal how its climate changed over time is poised to begin orbiting the Red Planet