LOGAN, Utah — Blue Canyon Technologies won its largest constellation order to date, a contract with weather technology company Tomorrow.io. Under a contract announced Aug. 9, Blue Canyon, a Raytheon […]
The next full moon will occur on Thursday, Aug. 11 at 9:36 p.m. (0336 Aug. 12 GMT), but the moon will appear full the night before and after its peak […]
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Starlink 4-26 mission will launch […]
Space Safety 09/08/2022 753 views 16 likes In brief A fireball spotted over Madrid has had its astronomical ancestry unearthed. While it ended its days burning up in Earth’s atmosphere […]
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s […]
Illustration of NASA’s Lunar IceCube mission investigating lunar ice. Credit: Morehead State University NASA’s water-scouting CubeSat is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Not much bigger than […]
LOGAN, Utah — Canadian launch startup SpaceRyde said Aug. 8 it has added a second member to its advisory board with the appointment of Mina Mitry, the CEO of small […]
It doesn’t look like Mother Nature will interfere with SpaceX’s next Starlink launch. The latest forecast from the U.S. Space Force predicts just a 30% chance of bad weather for […]
August 7, 2022 Stephen Clark Live coverage of the countdown and launch of India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle with the EOS-02 Earth observation technology demonstration satellite. Text updates will appear […]
While NASA’s much-lauded Space Launch System stands ready for its maiden flight later this month with the goal of sending astronauts back to the Moon in the next few years, […]
ESA and NASA’s Artemis I spacecraft is cleared for launch after a series of final tests at the US Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) will provide […]
By ESA/Hubble August 8, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç This vibrant […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Alongside cultural heavyweights such as Disney’s “Encanto” and Warner Brothers’ “The Batman,” a short film created at Goddard shares the screen next week at a festival […]
Updated 12:30 p.m. Eastern with confirmation of launch failure. SEOUL, South Korea — The inaugural launch of India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) failed to reach orbit Aug. 6 when […]
A physicist excited Twitter fans this week with a stunning new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope, then surprised everyone by admitting it was just a slice of tasty […]
India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. Credit: ISRO India’s space agency said Sunday the inaugural demonstration flight of the country’s new Small Satellite […]
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most […]
Science & Exploration 05/08/2022 750 views 34 likes ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was launched to the International Space Station on 27 April as a part of Crew-4 for her second […]
The strong chemical bonds in biomass, or plant matter, can be broken by electricity and water thanks to the researchers’ newly developed chemical method. These chemical tools can access plant-based […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama at a drill site nicknamed Avanavero on June 20, 2022. In its decade on the Red Planet, the rover has used the […]
HOUSTON — As NASA prepares to select the crew of the second Artemis mission, the agency’s chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps, and not a previously announced subset, is […]
A new Indian rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time on Saturday night (Aug. 6), and you can watch the debut live. The country’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lifts off from West Texas on the NS-22 mission Thursday. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin launched six more people on a quick, 10-minute flight to […]
In a recent study published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, two researchers from Brown University demonstrated how data from past missions to Jupiter can help scientists examine dark […]
Although this pure gold pin is not much bigger than the tip of a pencil, it is the ‘pulsing heart’ of ESA’s Low Earth Orbit Facility, LEOX. Part of the Agency’s Materials […]
Perseid meteor shower time-lapse photo. Often bringing one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky, the Perseids will peak on August 12 and 13. Usually, […]
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius. The star-strewn […]
Since Vladimir Putin launched his war of conquest and genocide against Ukraine on Feb. 24, there has been a sea change in the West’s dealings with Russia. Businesses and governments […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover has hit a major milestone: the robot is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its landing on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012. Over the decade, the rover has […]
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with the Korea Lunar […]
NASA has announced tentative placeholder launch dates for its beast of a rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), on its maiden flight to deep space. While work still needs to […]
Antares shines brightly above the Rho Ophiuchi complex.Ezequiel Etcheverry / S&T Online Photo Gallery Not long ago, I was working with a client on a blog post about summer insomnia […]
Science & Exploration 02/08/2022 13451 views 164 likes The Cartwheel Galaxy, a rare ring galaxy once shrouded in dust and mystery, has been unveiled by the imaging capabilities of the […]
Artist impression of the flow-driven DNA rotor. Credit: Cees Dekker Lab / SciXel Scientists have constructed the smallest flow-driven motors in the world. Inspired by iconic Dutch windmills and biological […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was confirmed to be part of one of Elon Musk’s […]
WASHINGTON — Preparations for the first flight of the Space Launch System remain on track for a liftoff as soon as Aug. 29, NASA officials said Aug. 3. SLS managers […]
Rocket fans, rejoice! If you’re a fan of spaceflight, then Thursday (Aug. 4) will be a banner day with no less than four different rockets launching missions off planet Earth. […]
Artist’s concept of the SBIRS GEO 6 satellite in orbit, with its solar arrays extended. Credit: Lockheed Martin The last in a line of six satellites for the U.S. military’s […]
The Cartwheel Galaxy, also known as ESO 350-40, is one disturbed-looking piece of cosmic real estate. To look at it now, especially in the latest JWST view, you’d never know […]
The Hubble (left) and Webb (right) images of the SMAC 0723 galaxy cluster are shown side by side. Find interactive comparisons here. John Christensen / WebbCompare Perhaps you’ve heard: The […]
Applications 03/08/2022 1227 views 12 likes On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable […]
As a megadrought persists across the US southwest, Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level. Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level […]
This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which reveals details that are difficult to see in […]
TAMPA, Fla. — A bill that would give $52 billion in subsidies to U.S. chip makers promises to galvanize domestic production, although it will take time to alleviate a semiconductor […]
The James Webb Space Telescope peered through dust and gas to reveal star formation in a rare wheel-shaped galaxy that formed in a long-ago galactic crash. The galaxy, called the […]
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1B on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand on a satellite delivery mission for the […]
Long anticipated comet K2 PanSTARRS puts on its best show through the end of 2022. An icy visitor from the distant Oort Cloud is still in view, if you know […]
Listen on YouTube. This month’s Sky Tour astronomy podcast tells you “what’s up” in the evening skies of August. No experience or equipment is necessary — just download or stream […]
Applications 01/08/2022 3393 views 44 likes Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest, forcing the fast-growing […]
According to the researchers, the positive impact of screening is gradually falling as cancer treatment improves. A recent study raises the issue of whether the advantages of breast cancer screenings […]
The background is a 3-color optical image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The small box (left) shows a sample dwarf galaxy that was observed with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope […]
The Pentagon assigned the Space Force responsibilities as “integrator for joint space requirements” WASHINGTON – The Space Force, the military branch responsible for providing satellite-based services to the U.S. armed […]
The full moon can be a stunning sight in the night sky, but did you know it can dance? A new time-lapse video from astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has shown just […]
The Korea Lunar Pathfinder Orbiter spacecraft undergoing testing in South Korea before shipment to Florida for launch preparations. Credit: KARI A South Korean spacecraft set for launch to the moon […]
Over the years, members of the public have regularly made exciting discoveries and meaningful contributions to the scientific process through citizen science projects. These citizen scientists sometimes mine large datasets […]
This composite view shows Hubble and Webb data for the spiral galaxy NGC 7496, put together by amateur space image processor Judy Schmidt. Find more of her work with JWST […]
This week’s image shows ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti hard at work on her first ever spacewalk, conducted alongside cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. Not only that, but this spacewalk was also the […]
The launch of the second module for China’s Tiangong space station on July 24. A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, leading US officials to […]
WASHINGTON — Faced within increasing costs, the European Space Agency is looking for ways to revise the design of a large X-ray space telescope, an effort that could have implications […]
A big piece of Chinese space junk has crashed back to Earth. The 25-ton (22.5 metric tons) core stage of a Long March 5B rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the […]
This map shows the ground track of the Long March 5B core stage during the two-hour re-entry window as of Saturday morning. The re-entry and debris footprint could occur anywhere […]
JWST is doing after its micrometeorite strike, two more helicopters are flying to Mars, China will drop a 50+ meter booster… somewhere, and how do you stop the Milky Way […]
FRIDAY, JULY 29 ■ The Big Dipper hangs diagonally in the northwest after dark. From its midpoint, look to the right by about three fists at arm’s length to find […]
Enabling & Support 28/07/2022 5898 views 97 likes ESA’s EnVision mission to Venus will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth’s sister planet. But before getting down to work the […]
Researchers manipulate elasto-plastic objects into target shapes from visual cues. Credit: MIT CSAIL Robots manipulate soft, deformable material into various shapes from visual inputs in a new system that could […]
A multi-wavelength view of Zeta Ophiuchi. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Dublin Inst. Advanced Studies/S. Green et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Spitzer Zeta Ophiuchi has had an interesting life. It began as a typical large […]
Updated 2:25 p.m. Eastern with NASA statement. WASHINGTON — Masten Space Systems, a company developing a lunar lander for a NASA mission, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy July 28 with […]
The annual Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks tonight (July 29) through dawn on Saturday (July 30) and commonly generates about 15-20 meteors per hour at its peak. Look to the […]
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A Russian Progress cargo freighter approaches the International Space Station in the background, while a Soyuz crew ferry spacecraft is docked to the […]
Almost seven years ago (September 14th, 2015), researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves (GWs) for the first time. Their results were shared with the world […]
This artist’s illustration shows a “black widow pulsar” and its companion star. In the case of PSR J0952-0607, though, the companion appears to have given away most of its mass, […]
Applications 28/07/2022 713 views 30 likes In just a few months’ time Europe’s first Meteosat Third Generation satellite will soar into the skies on an Ariane 5 rocket from French […]
A depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to grow, around 550 million years ago; third, with an outermost and innermost inner core, […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station project after 2024 to focus on forming its own space station, the head of the Russian space agency […]
WASHINGTON — Boeing said July 27 it will take another charge against its earnings because of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program as the company and NASA get closer to […]
Here are the Blue Origin videos as posted on You Tube: `https://youtu.be/iXOXKfarFhg` `https://youtu.be/KQJj1_ad3FY` Amazing progress at Blue Origin. I look at this thread every year or two to […]
Russia’s departure from the International Space Station (ISS) program isn’t exactly imminent, it would seem. On Tuesday (July 26), Yuri Borisov, the new head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, announced […]
File photo of 36 OneWeb satellites stacked on a Soyuz rocket’s Fregat upper stage inside a processing facility at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos OneWeb and Eutelsat announced plans to […]
If we think untangling Earth’s complex geological history is difficult, think of the challenge involved in doing the same for Mars. At such a great distance, we rely on a […]
In his painting Two Men Contemplating the Moon, 19th century German artist Caspar David Friedrich depicts the earthlit portion of the waxing crescent with a brighter edge (top). The cause […]
ESA’s biggest and most complex Earth Explorer mission yet is currently being tested for space at ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre, the largest satellite test facility in Europe. The Earth Cloud […]
By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology July 26, 2022 MIT scientists have observed that when multiple starfish embryos spin up to the surface, they gravitate to each other […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The United States on Tuesday voiced regret over Russia’s announcement that it would exit the International Space Station after 2024 and said it was taken by […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Viasat said July 26 it has been selected to study multi-orbit satellite networks for the European Space Agency. The study will be conducted by the U.S.-based satellite […]
The newest piece of big Chinese space junk will fall back to Earth around the end of the month, experts predict. The object in question is the roughly 25-ton (22.5 […]
A Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft launched April 8 on the Ax-1 commercial crew mission for Axiom Space. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of […]
A pair of studies published in Science and Science Advances have helped identify that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft would have sunk into the asteroid […]
Gravitational nudges can dislodge comets from the icy outer regions of a planetary system and send them on a collision course with the system’s planets. What kind of planets are […]
Hundreds of residents and tourists have been evacuated from the east Aegean island of Lesbos (also known as Lesvos), Greece, after a wildfire broke out on the morning of 23 […]
According to new research, people that frequently play video games show superior sensorimotor decision-making skills and enhanced activity in key regions of the brain. Research findings suggest that video games […]
Considered heat sources/sinks and salinity/temperature forcings in our Enceladus experiments. (A) Primary heat sources and heat fluxes, including heating due to tidal dissipation in the ice ℋice and the silicate […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Eutelsat said July 25 it is in talks to merge with OneWeb to create a global multi-orbit satellite broadband operator. The deal would combine France-based Eutelsat’s satellite […]
from the “Blue Origin Fleet” thread <snip>If only both Blue Origin and SpaceX could put their differences aside, renting out one of the SpaceX LZ-1 pads with suitable modifications would […]
SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (July 24) in what was the fifth launch for the program in July alone, and the company’s 33rd launch of 2022. […]
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Starlink 4-25 mission will launch […]
Solar system worlds beyond Earth have amazing surface features. Thanks to planetary science missions, we see images of canyons, craters, and cliffs across a variety of worlds. Someday, those places […]
This artist’s impression shows what the binary system VFTS 243 might look like if we were observing it up close. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in […]
This wafer of Gallium Nitride – a material more typically found at the heart of Blu-Ray players – has been etched with hundreds of space-quality microwave integrated circuits. Many of ESA’s most ambitious […]
An illustration of Draper’s SERIES-2 lunar lander, which will deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon for NASA in 2025. Credit: Draper Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts has been given […]
LOGAN, Utah — Blue Canyon Technologies won its largest constellation order to date, a contract with weather technology company Tomorrow.io. Under a contract announced Aug. 9, Blue Canyon, a Raytheon […]
The next full moon will occur on Thursday, Aug. 11 at 9:36 p.m. (0336 Aug. 12 GMT), but the moon will appear full the night before and after its peak […]
Space Safety 09/08/2022 753 views 16 likes In brief A fireball spotted over Madrid has had its astronomical ancestry unearthed. While it ended its days burning up in Earth’s atmosphere […]
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s […]
Illustration of NASA’s Lunar IceCube mission investigating lunar ice. Credit: Morehead State University NASA’s water-scouting CubeSat is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Not much bigger than […]
LOGAN, Utah — Canadian launch startup SpaceRyde said Aug. 8 it has added a second member to its advisory board with the appointment of Mina Mitry, the CEO of small […]
It doesn’t look like Mother Nature will interfere with SpaceX’s next Starlink launch. The latest forecast from the U.S. Space Force predicts just a 30% chance of bad weather for […]
While NASA’s much-lauded Space Launch System stands ready for its maiden flight later this month with the goal of sending astronauts back to the Moon in the next few years, […]
ESA and NASA’s Artemis I spacecraft is cleared for launch after a series of final tests at the US Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) will provide […]
By ESA/Hubble August 8, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç This vibrant […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Alongside cultural heavyweights such as Disney’s “Encanto” and Warner Brothers’ “The Batman,” a short film created at Goddard shares the screen next week at a festival […]
Updated 12:30 p.m. Eastern with confirmation of launch failure. SEOUL, South Korea — The inaugural launch of India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) failed to reach orbit Aug. 6 when […]
A physicist excited Twitter fans this week with a stunning new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope, then surprised everyone by admitting it was just a slice of tasty […]
India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. Credit: ISRO India’s space agency said Sunday the inaugural demonstration flight of the country’s new Small Satellite […]
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most […]
Science & Exploration 05/08/2022 750 views 34 likes ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was launched to the International Space Station on 27 April as a part of Crew-4 for her second […]
The strong chemical bonds in biomass, or plant matter, can be broken by electricity and water thanks to the researchers’ newly developed chemical method. These chemical tools can access plant-based […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama at a drill site nicknamed Avanavero on June 20, 2022. In its decade on the Red Planet, the rover has used the […]
HOUSTON — As NASA prepares to select the crew of the second Artemis mission, the agency’s chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps, and not a previously announced subset, is […]
A new Indian rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time on Saturday night (Aug. 6), and you can watch the debut live. The country’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lifts off from West Texas on the NS-22 mission Thursday. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin launched six more people on a quick, 10-minute flight to […]
In a recent study published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, two researchers from Brown University demonstrated how data from past missions to Jupiter can help scientists examine dark […]
Although this pure gold pin is not much bigger than the tip of a pencil, it is the ‘pulsing heart’ of ESA’s Low Earth Orbit Facility, LEOX. Part of the Agency’s Materials […]
Perseid meteor shower time-lapse photo. Often bringing one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky, the Perseids will peak on August 12 and 13. Usually, […]
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius. The star-strewn […]
Since Vladimir Putin launched his war of conquest and genocide against Ukraine on Feb. 24, there has been a sea change in the West’s dealings with Russia. Businesses and governments […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover has hit a major milestone: the robot is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its landing on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012. Over the decade, the rover has […]
NASA has announced tentative placeholder launch dates for its beast of a rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), on its maiden flight to deep space. While work still needs to […]
Antares shines brightly above the Rho Ophiuchi complex.Ezequiel Etcheverry / S&T Online Photo Gallery Not long ago, I was working with a client on a blog post about summer insomnia […]
Science & Exploration 02/08/2022 13451 views 164 likes The Cartwheel Galaxy, a rare ring galaxy once shrouded in dust and mystery, has been unveiled by the imaging capabilities of the […]
Artist impression of the flow-driven DNA rotor. Credit: Cees Dekker Lab / SciXel Scientists have constructed the smallest flow-driven motors in the world. Inspired by iconic Dutch windmills and biological […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was confirmed to be part of one of Elon Musk’s […]
WASHINGTON — Preparations for the first flight of the Space Launch System remain on track for a liftoff as soon as Aug. 29, NASA officials said Aug. 3. SLS managers […]
Rocket fans, rejoice! If you’re a fan of spaceflight, then Thursday (Aug. 4) will be a banner day with no less than four different rockets launching missions off planet Earth. […]
Artist’s concept of the SBIRS GEO 6 satellite in orbit, with its solar arrays extended. Credit: Lockheed Martin The last in a line of six satellites for the U.S. military’s […]
The Cartwheel Galaxy, also known as ESO 350-40, is one disturbed-looking piece of cosmic real estate. To look at it now, especially in the latest JWST view, you’d never know […]
The Hubble (left) and Webb (right) images of the SMAC 0723 galaxy cluster are shown side by side. Find interactive comparisons here. John Christensen / WebbCompare Perhaps you’ve heard: The […]
Applications 03/08/2022 1227 views 12 likes On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable […]
As a megadrought persists across the US southwest, Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level. Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level […]
This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which reveals details that are difficult to see in […]
TAMPA, Fla. — A bill that would give $52 billion in subsidies to U.S. chip makers promises to galvanize domestic production, although it will take time to alleviate a semiconductor […]
The James Webb Space Telescope peered through dust and gas to reveal star formation in a rare wheel-shaped galaxy that formed in a long-ago galactic crash. The galaxy, called the […]
Long anticipated comet K2 PanSTARRS puts on its best show through the end of 2022. An icy visitor from the distant Oort Cloud is still in view, if you know […]
Listen on YouTube. This month’s Sky Tour astronomy podcast tells you “what’s up” in the evening skies of August. No experience or equipment is necessary — just download or stream […]
Applications 01/08/2022 3393 views 44 likes Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest, forcing the fast-growing […]
According to the researchers, the positive impact of screening is gradually falling as cancer treatment improves. A recent study raises the issue of whether the advantages of breast cancer screenings […]
The background is a 3-color optical image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The small box (left) shows a sample dwarf galaxy that was observed with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope […]
The Pentagon assigned the Space Force responsibilities as “integrator for joint space requirements” WASHINGTON – The Space Force, the military branch responsible for providing satellite-based services to the U.S. armed […]
The full moon can be a stunning sight in the night sky, but did you know it can dance? A new time-lapse video from astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has shown just […]
The Korea Lunar Pathfinder Orbiter spacecraft undergoing testing in South Korea before shipment to Florida for launch preparations. Credit: KARI A South Korean spacecraft set for launch to the moon […]
Over the years, members of the public have regularly made exciting discoveries and meaningful contributions to the scientific process through citizen science projects. These citizen scientists sometimes mine large datasets […]
This composite view shows Hubble and Webb data for the spiral galaxy NGC 7496, put together by amateur space image processor Judy Schmidt. Find more of her work with JWST […]
This week’s image shows ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti hard at work on her first ever spacewalk, conducted alongside cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. Not only that, but this spacewalk was also the […]
Beginning a Journey Across the Universe: The Discovery of Extragalactic Neutrino Factories. Credit: © Benjamin Amend For the first time, researchers reveal the origin of neutrinos, elementary particles that reach […]
The launch of the second module for China’s Tiangong space station on July 24. A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, leading US officials to […]
WASHINGTON — Faced within increasing costs, the European Space Agency is looking for ways to revise the design of a large X-ray space telescope, an effort that could have implications […]
A big piece of Chinese space junk has crashed back to Earth. The 25-ton (22.5 metric tons) core stage of a Long March 5B rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the […]
This map shows the ground track of the Long March 5B core stage during the two-hour re-entry window as of Saturday morning. The re-entry and debris footprint could occur anywhere […]
JWST is doing after its micrometeorite strike, two more helicopters are flying to Mars, China will drop a 50+ meter booster… somewhere, and how do you stop the Milky Way […]
FRIDAY, JULY 29 ■ The Big Dipper hangs diagonally in the northwest after dark. From its midpoint, look to the right by about three fists at arm’s length to find […]
Enabling & Support 28/07/2022 5898 views 97 likes ESA’s EnVision mission to Venus will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth’s sister planet. But before getting down to work the […]
Researchers manipulate elasto-plastic objects into target shapes from visual cues. Credit: MIT CSAIL Robots manipulate soft, deformable material into various shapes from visual inputs in a new system that could […]
A multi-wavelength view of Zeta Ophiuchi. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Dublin Inst. Advanced Studies/S. Green et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Spitzer Zeta Ophiuchi has had an interesting life. It began as a typical large […]
Updated 2:25 p.m. Eastern with NASA statement. WASHINGTON — Masten Space Systems, a company developing a lunar lander for a NASA mission, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy July 28 with […]
The annual Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks tonight (July 29) through dawn on Saturday (July 30) and commonly generates about 15-20 meteors per hour at its peak. Look to the […]
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A Russian Progress cargo freighter approaches the International Space Station in the background, while a Soyuz crew ferry spacecraft is docked to the […]
Almost seven years ago (September 14th, 2015), researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves (GWs) for the first time. Their results were shared with the world […]
This artist’s illustration shows a “black widow pulsar” and its companion star. In the case of PSR J0952-0607, though, the companion appears to have given away most of its mass, […]
Applications 28/07/2022 713 views 30 likes In just a few months’ time Europe’s first Meteosat Third Generation satellite will soar into the skies on an Ariane 5 rocket from French […]
A depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to grow, around 550 million years ago; third, with an outermost and innermost inner core, […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station project after 2024 to focus on forming its own space station, the head of the Russian space agency […]
WASHINGTON — Boeing said July 27 it will take another charge against its earnings because of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program as the company and NASA get closer to […]
Here are the Blue Origin videos as posted on You Tube: `https://youtu.be/iXOXKfarFhg` `https://youtu.be/KQJj1_ad3FY` Amazing progress at Blue Origin. I look at this thread every year or two to […]
Russia’s departure from the International Space Station (ISS) program isn’t exactly imminent, it would seem. On Tuesday (July 26), Yuri Borisov, the new head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, announced […]
File photo of 36 OneWeb satellites stacked on a Soyuz rocket’s Fregat upper stage inside a processing facility at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos OneWeb and Eutelsat announced plans to […]
If we think untangling Earth’s complex geological history is difficult, think of the challenge involved in doing the same for Mars. At such a great distance, we rely on a […]
In his painting Two Men Contemplating the Moon, 19th century German artist Caspar David Friedrich depicts the earthlit portion of the waxing crescent with a brighter edge (top). The cause […]
ESA’s biggest and most complex Earth Explorer mission yet is currently being tested for space at ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre, the largest satellite test facility in Europe. The Earth Cloud […]
By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology July 26, 2022 MIT scientists have observed that when multiple starfish embryos spin up to the surface, they gravitate to each other […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The United States on Tuesday voiced regret over Russia’s announcement that it would exit the International Space Station after 2024 and said it was taken by […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Viasat said July 26 it has been selected to study multi-orbit satellite networks for the European Space Agency. The study will be conducted by the U.S.-based satellite […]
A Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft launched April 8 on the Ax-1 commercial crew mission for Axiom Space. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of […]
A pair of studies published in Science and Science Advances have helped identify that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft would have sunk into the asteroid […]
Gravitational nudges can dislodge comets from the icy outer regions of a planetary system and send them on a collision course with the system’s planets. What kind of planets are […]
Hundreds of residents and tourists have been evacuated from the east Aegean island of Lesbos (also known as Lesvos), Greece, after a wildfire broke out on the morning of 23 […]
According to new research, people that frequently play video games show superior sensorimotor decision-making skills and enhanced activity in key regions of the brain. Research findings suggest that video games […]
Considered heat sources/sinks and salinity/temperature forcings in our Enceladus experiments. (A) Primary heat sources and heat fluxes, including heating due to tidal dissipation in the ice ℋice and the silicate […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Eutelsat said July 25 it is in talks to merge with OneWeb to create a global multi-orbit satellite broadband operator. The deal would combine France-based Eutelsat’s satellite […]
from the “Blue Origin Fleet” thread <snip>If only both Blue Origin and SpaceX could put their differences aside, renting out one of the SpaceX LZ-1 pads with suitable modifications would […]
SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (July 24) in what was the fifth launch for the program in July alone, and the company’s 33rd launch of 2022. […]
Solar system worlds beyond Earth have amazing surface features. Thanks to planetary science missions, we see images of canyons, craters, and cliffs across a variety of worlds. Someday, those places […]
This artist’s impression shows what the binary system VFTS 243 might look like if we were observing it up close. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in […]
This wafer of Gallium Nitride – a material more typically found at the heart of Blu-Ray players – has been etched with hundreds of space-quality microwave integrated circuits. Many of ESA’s most ambitious […]
An illustration of Draper’s SERIES-2 lunar lander, which will deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon for NASA in 2025. Credit: Draper Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts has been given […]