ESTEEMStream.News

Mining the Stars

By: Preston Wichert, Journalist

What is asteroid mining? Asteroid mining is when you travel to deep space then you harvest the valuable materials on the asteroid that are worth lots of money.

Read Story

Neil Armstrong, Soldier, Engineer, Astronaut

By: Zouli Alexandratos, Journalist

Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on 7/20/69, saying the quote "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". He was the first person to ever step foot on the moon.

Read Story

What is IMAP? IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will help solve a major question about space: how cosmic rays are filtered by the heliosphere. These particles may pose a risk to astronauts,...

Gravity Can Exist Without Mass and Dark Matter Could Be Non-Existent

By: Miles Kowalewski, Journilist

For decades, this explanation has supported the existence of the hypothetical dark matter. However, a new study says that gravity can exist even without mass, potentially getting rid of the need for dark matter altogether. This one-of-a-kind theory “is in turn driven by my frustration with the status quo, namely the notion of dark matter’s existence despite the lack of any direct evidence for a whole century,” Richard Lieu, study author and a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville said.

Read Story

#Space

Living Among The Stars

By: Aiden Fanueli, Journalist

Have you ever thought about how astronauts live in space and how their habitat is engineered to support their lives? Currently, the International Space Station has housed astronauts since 2000.

Read Story

How 3d Printing Could Help Us Settle On The Moon

By: Joe Rojas Perez, Journalist

3D printing can do a lot of things, but recently nasa has said that they could use 3d to help us settle on the moon.

Read Story

Satellites: What They Are

By: Shiryu Gibson, Journalist

What are satellites and how can they help us down on earth? Satellites are important to modern life because they can send radio signals back to earth so we can use objects like our phones or TV.

Read Story

The Chicxulub Impact

By: Josslyn Wellck, Journalist

Over sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit just off the coast of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The dust spread worldwide, blotting out sunlight and lowering temperatures for years, resulting in mass extinction.

Read Story

Colonizing Venus’s Atmosphere

By: Mercer Tomasino, Journalist

While many are looking to colonize Mars, the possibility of building a civilization on our other neighboring planet has arisen.

Read Story

Optical/Laser Communications Help NASA Transmit Data

By: Kawa Gyatso, Journalist

For the longest time, NASA and other space corporations needed a way to send and receive more data faster and better. The LCRD (Laser Communication Radio Device) replicates technological advances and is far more efficient than any data system ever before.

Read Story

Private Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope Brings Concerns

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in Earth Orbit for over 3 decades now, is expected to deorbit in 2034, bringing a close to a major asset that has helped NASA and the world at-large understand the universe. In 2022, billionaire and major funder of the Polaris Program, Jared Isaacman, announced that he would fly to Hubble and perform maintenance on the Telescope, and it would be completely funded privately.

Read Story

Primordial Black holes

By: Brandon Tao, Journalist

Primordial Black holes are the smallest black holes to ever exist in the universe, they were smaller than a proton, & just as mysterious as dark matter. While unknown if they exist, their existence could answer many questions about how our universe evolved & came to be.

Read Story