Hubble Space Telescope image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula’s outskirts. This famously beautiful nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a frequent target for Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble & […]
Conceptual image of MACS1149-JD1 forming and spinning up to speed in the early Universe. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) As telescopes have become more advanced and powerful, astronomers have been able to […]
HELSINKI — The Chinese Academy Sciences is preparing to select a new batch of space missions from proposals to study Earth, the Sun and solar system, and the deeper universe […]
The United States Space Force has activated a new unit that is tasked with providing “critical intelligence on threat systems, foreign intentions and activities in the space domain.” Pentagon leaders […]
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission, known as […]
Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons, and they have magnetic fields […]
The sheer wealth of data current missions generate can overwhelm professional astronomers, so in the past decade, research groups have increasingly relied on citizen scientists. One project that calls upon […]
A 50-metre asteroid out there has lingered at the top of risk lists around the globe. Initial observations showed 2021 QM1 had a chance of striking Earth in 2052, and […]
Individuals who ate a moderate amount of eggs possessed more large HDL molecules in their blood, which assist in the removal of cholesterol from blood vessels and hence guard against […]
A wonder of engineering, Webb is able to gaze further into the cosmos than any telescope before it thanks to its enormous primary mirror and its instruments that focus on […]
TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched the first television broadcast satellite under SES’s C-band clearing plan June 29 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 5:04 p.m. […]
A new simulation of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission suggests that rather than leaving a crater behind, the DART impactor could severely deform the small asteroid it will […]
United Launch Alliance teams at Cape Canaveral are preparing to roll an Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Wednesday, moving the launcher into position for liftoff Thursday evening with […]
Astronomers using the ALMA Observatory have discovered an unusual, massive star near the center of our galaxy, a star that has two spiral arms. The arms are part of an […]
Capstone lifts off on an Electron rocket. Rocket Lab A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lit up the evening skies over New Zealand today, carrying a small mission that heralds the […]
Applications 28/06/2022 1145 views 29 likes ESA has awarded a contract worth €160 million to Airbus in the UK to build the Earth Explorer FORUM satellite. This exciting new mission […]
New techniques developed by the Huang Lab give researchers a way to understand diseases at the sub-cellular level, potentially opening the door for new treatments. Credit: University of Chicago Jun […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of […]
TALLINN, Estonia — Chinese launch service provider Expace has secured $237 million in B round funding, following last week’s return to flight of its Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket. Expace, a subsidiary […]
NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has begun its long, history-making journey to the moon. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) cubesat launched today (June 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which lifted […]
An engineer at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems inspects solar arrays on NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Dominic Hart NASA and commercial companies are ready to launch a 55-pound spacecraft from New Zealand […]
The thing with black holes is they’re hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black […]
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged a fresh double crater on the Moon’s farside, created by the recent booster impact.NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University A recent lunar science mystery […]
A beautiful sequence of 56 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of its destination planet Mercury […]
“Origin of Life” artist’s concept. The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, scientists at The […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA’s first-ever launch from a commercial site outside of the United States blasted off from Australia’s Outback late Sunday, in a “historic” moment for the country’s […]
WASHINGTON — The two companies NASA selected earlier this month to develop spacesuits for the International Space Station and Artemis lunar missions were the only companies to bid on the […]
…This has implications for abort situations. A sudden loss of thrust on ascent but within the atmosphere (which might happen on P2P flights without SH, ascent from Mars, or a […]
NASA has called off plans to launch a small cubesat to the moon on Monday (June 27) to allow more time to check its Rocket Lab booster for flight. The […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated June 25 with completion of HPU hot fire test. NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket on pad 39B earlier this year. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky With a series of […]
If NASA’s Artemis project to return to the Moon permanently is going to succeed, it will need a lot of power. Shipping traditional fossil fuels up there is impractical, and […]
Fire climbed on the slopes of Kitt Peak on the evening of June 16, 2022. KPNO / NOIRLab / NSF / Aura Wildfires and astronomical observatories have two things in […]
Science & Exploration 24/06/2022 101378 views 68 likes The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its second gravity assist of planet Mercury, capturing new close-up images as it steers closer towards […]
Artist’s illustration of uninhabitable conditions during the Hadean, an early geologic eon of Earth history. Credit: Alec Brenner Zircons (and the Secrets They Hold) Are Forever Scientists have long known […]
Elizabeth C. Sklute uses a Bruker ALPHA Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer to study the mineral products created through the bioreduction of iron (hydr)oxides by microbes. Credit: E.C. Sklute, PSI. Results of […]
One priority for Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, is to impose discipline in procurement programs WASHINGTON — The Space Force’s new acquisition […]
It’s a tall task to imagine a more pivotal year for classic Hollywood genre films than 1982. The cosmic tumblers aligned to smile on geeky, big-budget releases that included such […]
A monitoring camera on ESA’s BepiColombo mission captured this black-and-white view of a heavily cratered region on Mercury during a June 23 flyby. Volcanic plains are also visible in this […]
There are few things in this world that brings feelings of awe and wonder more than a rocket launch. Watching a literal tower of steel slowly lift off from the […]
FRIDAY, JUNE 24 ■ After dark, look southeast for orange Antares, “the Betelgeuse of summer.” (Both are 1st-magnitude “red” supergiants). Around and upper right of Antares the other, whiter stars […]
Agency 24/06/2022 556 views 21 likes Photo highlights from the ‘Space for Earth’ space pavilion at ILA, the Berlin Air and Space Show, from 22 to 26 .June 2022. ESA joined the […]
Researchers found no significant differences in brain structure between the group participating in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course and either control group. A new study finds no indication of structural […]
Credit: Music: The Mysterious Staircase by Brice Davoli [SACEM], Suspended in Time by Brice Davoli [SACEM], Universal Production Music Kazuyuki Miyazaki (JPL): Lead Scientist Kevin Bowman (JPL): Scientist Lesley Ott […]
When U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced in an April 18 speech at Vandenberg Space Force Base that the United States would ban the testing of destructive, direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) […]
Three companies will demonstrate their potential to power lunar infrastructure using nuclear fission systems, under new joint NASA contracts announced on Tuesday (June 21). NASA and the U.S. Department of […]
The second section of the Florida launch tower for SpaceX’s huge Super Heavy and Starship rocket was lifted on top of the first tower segment Thursday at the Kennedy Space […]
It looks like South Korea just joined the most exclusive club on the planet! With the launch of its Korea Satellite Launch Vehicle II (KSLV-II aka. the “Nuri” rocket) on […]
Stellar nurseries and the gas around them have long been studied in two dimensions. While these plane-of-sky studies yield plenty of information, not knowing the 3D picture limits our understanding […]
This image comes to you from Mount Etna, Sicily, where a lunar analog study focusing on robotic exploration is currently unfolding. The project – named the ARCHES Space-Analog Demonstration – […]
The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical image from the Digitized Sky […]
This image shows where the James Webb Space Telescope will observe the sky within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which consists of two fields. The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Propulsion startup Plasmos is testing its first rocket engine thanks to a $250,000 in-kind investment from Velo3D, a metal additive manufacturing startup known for its work with […]
Warning: Spoilers ahead for “The Orville” season 3, episode 3 You read that headline correctly : We’re giving this episode of “The Orville,” entitled “Mortality Paradox,” a perfect 10. And […]
South Korea’s space agency said Tuesday that the country’s 15-story-tall Nuri launcher successfully reached orbit for the first time, giving the nation a fully domestic satellite launch capability after […]
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, started off as a beautiful, smooth red grape until someone came along, mostly peeled it, tried to smoosh it, then just gave up and walked away, […]
All five bright planets fan out in order of their distance from the Sun across the dawn sky now through early July. One of the prettiest mornings to view them […]
Enabling & Support 21/06/2022 2590 views 70 likes In brief The MARSIS instrument on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, famous for its role in the discovery of signs of liquid water […]
Founded by Julia Somerdin in 2017, the startup Labby has created MilKey, a way to help dairy farmers monitor the health of their cows. Credit: MIT News Startup company has […]
This image shows a “map” of the night sky in soft X-ray light in galactic coordinates, with the Sun positioned at the center. The horizontal line across the middle of […]
Appropriators raised red flags about missile-warning satellite programs, for which the Space Force requested $4.5 billion in 2023 WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee in a report accompanying the fiscal […]
The “Sense of congress” (i.e., Congressman Smith of Washington) is supposed to be interpreted as “buy stuff from BO” and specifically “use New Glenn when it is available.” Well Blue […]
Summer officially kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere today (June 21), marking the longest day of the year. During the June solstice (or summer solstice), the sun reaches its highest […]
NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket stands fully fueled on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center soon after the conclusion of a wet dress rehearsal Monday evening. Credit: NASA NASA […]
Agency 20/06/2022 468 views 33 likes Crowds at the Berlin International Airshow – which will focus on innovation, new technology and sustainability – are set to be wowed by space. […]
The newly developed method involves putting a small coating of zwitterionic material on a device and binding it to the underlying substrate using UV light. The resultant barrier prevents bacteria and other harmful organic […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect the faint signatures of neutral hydrogen […]
HELSINKI — China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and […]
Refresh 2022-06-19T21:58:04.440Z Artemis 1 ‘go’ for tanking operations Monday (Image credit: NASA) The Artemis 1 stack is “go” to proceed with the terminal countdown of the wet dress rehearsal on […]
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the Globalstar FM15 satellite. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX hauled a Globalstar communications satellite into orbit […]
An illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. FECYT / IAC Two international teams of astronomers may have just used the Hubble […]
Agency 16/06/2022 4981 views 42 likes The European Space Agency is currently looking for a new Director of Science and new Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, to join its […]
Researchers found an 8% increase in the mortality risk associated with eating moderate amounts of red meat. Researchers suggest limiting the consumption of ultra-processed meals and red meat to increase […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Four non-scientific buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson were lost in a wildfire, but early indications show other buildings on the property […]
SEOUL, South Korea — The second launch of South Korea’s first domestically built rocket is set for June 21, a delay of a week due to strong winds and a technical glitch. “We convened […]
SpaceX just completed a remarkable spaceflight tripleheader. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday (June 19) at 12:27 a.m. EDT (0427 GMT), […]
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 Globalstar FM15 […]
An artist’s illustration shows a white dwarf star accreting debris from shattered objects in a planetary system.NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI) What’s stranger than stones raining down onto […]
Agency 16/06/2022 1566 views 41 likes ESA has put forward its ambitious plans for the next three years and beyond to increase European autonomy, leadership and responsibility in space. Spacefaring […]
University of British Columbia researchers have mapped what occurs in the brain when a person gets the depression treatment known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. A new study maps how […]
The modeled and observed periodic X-ray burst light curve of the GS 1826–24 X-ray source. The light curve generated from the new reaction rate of the proton capture on copper-57 […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Remote communications provider Speedcast is preparing to buy another sizable chunk of satellite capacity as demand soars beyond pre-pandemic levels. Speedcast added 13 gigabits per second (Gbps) […]
SpaceX plans to launch a German military satellite and land the returning rocket on Saturday morning (June 18), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
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 4-19 mission launched SpaceX’s […]
FRIDAY, JUNE 17 ■ The waning gibbous Moon rises around midnight tonight with Saturn glowing steadily to its left, by about 7°. Saturn is magnitude +0.7. Partway between it and […]
Applications 17/06/2022 448 views 15 likes Part of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, which lies along the coast of southeast Alaska, is featured in this image captured by […]
Scientists have identified a molecule in the blood, created during exercise, that can effectively reduce food intake and obesity in mice. The benefits of exercise in a pill? Science is […]
Coronal loops on the Sun are captured in ultraviolet light using the 171 ångström channel of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO From […]
The chairman’s mark brings up concerns about creating opportunities for new players to compete in the National Security Space Launch program WASHINGTON — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam […]
Hello everybody, then let’s go to the prototype of the small Vertical Transportation Tie-down Lug Plates. If you look closely, you can see on this photo from the STS-130 […]
A group of anonymous SpaceX employees say that founder and CEO Elon Musk’s recent behavior reflects badly on the company. An open letter to company executives was posted in an […]
The UltraFlex solar arrays on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unfold during a ground test at a Lockheed Martin test facility in Colorado. Credit: Lockheed Martin Engineers have made progress in attempts […]
Earlier this year, scientists from China’s Chang’E-5 lunar lander revealed they had found evidence of water in the form of hydroxyl from in-situ measurements taken while lander was on the […]
A galaxy in a telescope (or a Hubble image) may seem silent and still, but that’s only because us humans are impatient. Over millions or even billions of years, gravity […]
Video: 00:02:03 ESA’s Council at Ministerial level will take place in November 2022, a crucial milestone as Europe sets out its ambitions and plans for space activities in the coming […]
A new study from the University of Oxford revealed that patients taking statins had reduced negative emotional bias. Statins have been linked with reduced negative emotional bias With 17.3 million […]
Examples of galaxy pairs found in this study—here are examples of detected systems which are within close proximity to each other. Credit: C.Conselice et al Astronomers in the UK announce […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Planet revealed the value of its largest contract to date, a $146 million award from the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imagery over two years, during the […]
August, September, October, November, December Thats 5. Good to go! Edit: the first might just qualify as suborbital. . So maybe 2 in December. Previously the first flight going to […]
Update for 4:45 pm ET: The Virtual Telescope Project has canceled its Strawberry supermoon webcast due to cloudy weather. Here’s what to expect for the Strawberry supermoon in your night […]
Momentus’ Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle. Credit: Niall David / Momentus The first test flight of a commercial orbital transfer vehicle from Momentus is suffering from a problem with its solar […]
Hubble Space Telescope image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula’s outskirts. This famously beautiful nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a frequent target for Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble & […]
Conceptual image of MACS1149-JD1 forming and spinning up to speed in the early Universe. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) As telescopes have become more advanced and powerful, astronomers have been able to […]
HELSINKI — The Chinese Academy Sciences is preparing to select a new batch of space missions from proposals to study Earth, the Sun and solar system, and the deeper universe […]
The United States Space Force has activated a new unit that is tasked with providing “critical intelligence on threat systems, foreign intentions and activities in the space domain.” Pentagon leaders […]
Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons, and they have magnetic fields […]
The sheer wealth of data current missions generate can overwhelm professional astronomers, so in the past decade, research groups have increasingly relied on citizen scientists. One project that calls upon […]
A 50-metre asteroid out there has lingered at the top of risk lists around the globe. Initial observations showed 2021 QM1 had a chance of striking Earth in 2052, and […]
Individuals who ate a moderate amount of eggs possessed more large HDL molecules in their blood, which assist in the removal of cholesterol from blood vessels and hence guard against […]
A wonder of engineering, Webb is able to gaze further into the cosmos than any telescope before it thanks to its enormous primary mirror and its instruments that focus on […]
TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched the first television broadcast satellite under SES’s C-band clearing plan June 29 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 5:04 p.m. […]
A new simulation of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission suggests that rather than leaving a crater behind, the DART impactor could severely deform the small asteroid it will […]
Astronomers using the ALMA Observatory have discovered an unusual, massive star near the center of our galaxy, a star that has two spiral arms. The arms are part of an […]
Capstone lifts off on an Electron rocket. Rocket Lab A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lit up the evening skies over New Zealand today, carrying a small mission that heralds the […]
Applications 28/06/2022 1145 views 29 likes ESA has awarded a contract worth €160 million to Airbus in the UK to build the Earth Explorer FORUM satellite. This exciting new mission […]
New techniques developed by the Huang Lab give researchers a way to understand diseases at the sub-cellular level, potentially opening the door for new treatments. Credit: University of Chicago Jun […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of […]
TALLINN, Estonia — Chinese launch service provider Expace has secured $237 million in B round funding, following last week’s return to flight of its Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket. Expace, a subsidiary […]
NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has begun its long, history-making journey to the moon. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) cubesat launched today (June 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which lifted […]
An engineer at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems inspects solar arrays on NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Dominic Hart NASA and commercial companies are ready to launch a 55-pound spacecraft from New Zealand […]
The thing with black holes is they’re hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black […]
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged a fresh double crater on the Moon’s farside, created by the recent booster impact.NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University A recent lunar science mystery […]
A beautiful sequence of 56 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of its destination planet Mercury […]
“Origin of Life” artist’s concept. The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, scientists at The […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA’s first-ever launch from a commercial site outside of the United States blasted off from Australia’s Outback late Sunday, in a “historic” moment for the country’s […]
WASHINGTON — The two companies NASA selected earlier this month to develop spacesuits for the International Space Station and Artemis lunar missions were the only companies to bid on the […]
…This has implications for abort situations. A sudden loss of thrust on ascent but within the atmosphere (which might happen on P2P flights without SH, ascent from Mars, or a […]
NASA has called off plans to launch a small cubesat to the moon on Monday (June 27) to allow more time to check its Rocket Lab booster for flight. The […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated June 25 with completion of HPU hot fire test. NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket on pad 39B earlier this year. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky With a series of […]
If NASA’s Artemis project to return to the Moon permanently is going to succeed, it will need a lot of power. Shipping traditional fossil fuels up there is impractical, and […]
Fire climbed on the slopes of Kitt Peak on the evening of June 16, 2022. KPNO / NOIRLab / NSF / Aura Wildfires and astronomical observatories have two things in […]
Science & Exploration 24/06/2022 101378 views 68 likes The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its second gravity assist of planet Mercury, capturing new close-up images as it steers closer towards […]
Artist’s illustration of uninhabitable conditions during the Hadean, an early geologic eon of Earth history. Credit: Alec Brenner Zircons (and the Secrets They Hold) Are Forever Scientists have long known […]
Elizabeth C. Sklute uses a Bruker ALPHA Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer to study the mineral products created through the bioreduction of iron (hydr)oxides by microbes. Credit: E.C. Sklute, PSI. Results of […]
One priority for Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, is to impose discipline in procurement programs WASHINGTON — The Space Force’s new acquisition […]
It’s a tall task to imagine a more pivotal year for classic Hollywood genre films than 1982. The cosmic tumblers aligned to smile on geeky, big-budget releases that included such […]
A monitoring camera on ESA’s BepiColombo mission captured this black-and-white view of a heavily cratered region on Mercury during a June 23 flyby. Volcanic plains are also visible in this […]
There are few things in this world that brings feelings of awe and wonder more than a rocket launch. Watching a literal tower of steel slowly lift off from the […]
FRIDAY, JUNE 24 ■ After dark, look southeast for orange Antares, “the Betelgeuse of summer.” (Both are 1st-magnitude “red” supergiants). Around and upper right of Antares the other, whiter stars […]
Agency 24/06/2022 556 views 21 likes Photo highlights from the ‘Space for Earth’ space pavilion at ILA, the Berlin Air and Space Show, from 22 to 26 .June 2022. ESA joined the […]
Researchers found no significant differences in brain structure between the group participating in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course and either control group. A new study finds no indication of structural […]
Credit: Music: The Mysterious Staircase by Brice Davoli [SACEM], Suspended in Time by Brice Davoli [SACEM], Universal Production Music Kazuyuki Miyazaki (JPL): Lead Scientist Kevin Bowman (JPL): Scientist Lesley Ott […]
When U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced in an April 18 speech at Vandenberg Space Force Base that the United States would ban the testing of destructive, direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) […]
Three companies will demonstrate their potential to power lunar infrastructure using nuclear fission systems, under new joint NASA contracts announced on Tuesday (June 21). NASA and the U.S. Department of […]
It looks like South Korea just joined the most exclusive club on the planet! With the launch of its Korea Satellite Launch Vehicle II (KSLV-II aka. the “Nuri” rocket) on […]
Stellar nurseries and the gas around them have long been studied in two dimensions. While these plane-of-sky studies yield plenty of information, not knowing the 3D picture limits our understanding […]
This image comes to you from Mount Etna, Sicily, where a lunar analog study focusing on robotic exploration is currently unfolding. The project – named the ARCHES Space-Analog Demonstration – […]
The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical image from the Digitized Sky […]
This image shows where the James Webb Space Telescope will observe the sky within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which consists of two fields. The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Propulsion startup Plasmos is testing its first rocket engine thanks to a $250,000 in-kind investment from Velo3D, a metal additive manufacturing startup known for its work with […]
Warning: Spoilers ahead for “The Orville” season 3, episode 3 You read that headline correctly : We’re giving this episode of “The Orville,” entitled “Mortality Paradox,” a perfect 10. And […]
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, started off as a beautiful, smooth red grape until someone came along, mostly peeled it, tried to smoosh it, then just gave up and walked away, […]
All five bright planets fan out in order of their distance from the Sun across the dawn sky now through early July. One of the prettiest mornings to view them […]
Enabling & Support 21/06/2022 2590 views 70 likes In brief The MARSIS instrument on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, famous for its role in the discovery of signs of liquid water […]
Founded by Julia Somerdin in 2017, the startup Labby has created MilKey, a way to help dairy farmers monitor the health of their cows. Credit: MIT News Startup company has […]
This image shows a “map” of the night sky in soft X-ray light in galactic coordinates, with the Sun positioned at the center. The horizontal line across the middle of […]
Appropriators raised red flags about missile-warning satellite programs, for which the Space Force requested $4.5 billion in 2023 WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee in a report accompanying the fiscal […]
The “Sense of congress” (i.e., Congressman Smith of Washington) is supposed to be interpreted as “buy stuff from BO” and specifically “use New Glenn when it is available.” Well Blue […]
Summer officially kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere today (June 21), marking the longest day of the year. During the June solstice (or summer solstice), the sun reaches its highest […]
NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket stands fully fueled on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center soon after the conclusion of a wet dress rehearsal Monday evening. Credit: NASA NASA […]
Agency 20/06/2022 468 views 33 likes Crowds at the Berlin International Airshow – which will focus on innovation, new technology and sustainability – are set to be wowed by space. […]
The newly developed method involves putting a small coating of zwitterionic material on a device and binding it to the underlying substrate using UV light. The resultant barrier prevents bacteria and other harmful organic […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect the faint signatures of neutral hydrogen […]
HELSINKI — China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and […]
Refresh 2022-06-19T21:58:04.440Z Artemis 1 ‘go’ for tanking operations Monday (Image credit: NASA) The Artemis 1 stack is “go” to proceed with the terminal countdown of the wet dress rehearsal on […]
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the Globalstar FM15 satellite. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX hauled a Globalstar communications satellite into orbit […]
An illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. FECYT / IAC Two international teams of astronomers may have just used the Hubble […]
Agency 16/06/2022 4981 views 42 likes The European Space Agency is currently looking for a new Director of Science and new Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, to join its […]
Researchers found an 8% increase in the mortality risk associated with eating moderate amounts of red meat. Researchers suggest limiting the consumption of ultra-processed meals and red meat to increase […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Four non-scientific buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson were lost in a wildfire, but early indications show other buildings on the property […]
SEOUL, South Korea — The second launch of South Korea’s first domestically built rocket is set for June 21, a delay of a week due to strong winds and a technical glitch. “We convened […]
SpaceX just completed a remarkable spaceflight tripleheader. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday (June 19) at 12:27 a.m. EDT (0427 GMT), […]
An artist’s illustration shows a white dwarf star accreting debris from shattered objects in a planetary system.NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI) What’s stranger than stones raining down onto […]
Agency 16/06/2022 1566 views 41 likes ESA has put forward its ambitious plans for the next three years and beyond to increase European autonomy, leadership and responsibility in space. Spacefaring […]
University of British Columbia researchers have mapped what occurs in the brain when a person gets the depression treatment known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. A new study maps how […]
The modeled and observed periodic X-ray burst light curve of the GS 1826–24 X-ray source. The light curve generated from the new reaction rate of the proton capture on copper-57 […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Remote communications provider Speedcast is preparing to buy another sizable chunk of satellite capacity as demand soars beyond pre-pandemic levels. Speedcast added 13 gigabits per second (Gbps) […]
SpaceX plans to launch a German military satellite and land the returning rocket on Saturday morning (June 18), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
FRIDAY, JUNE 17 ■ The waning gibbous Moon rises around midnight tonight with Saturn glowing steadily to its left, by about 7°. Saturn is magnitude +0.7. Partway between it and […]
Applications 17/06/2022 448 views 15 likes Part of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, which lies along the coast of southeast Alaska, is featured in this image captured by […]
Scientists have identified a molecule in the blood, created during exercise, that can effectively reduce food intake and obesity in mice. The benefits of exercise in a pill? Science is […]
Coronal loops on the Sun are captured in ultraviolet light using the 171 ångström channel of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO From […]
The chairman’s mark brings up concerns about creating opportunities for new players to compete in the National Security Space Launch program WASHINGTON — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam […]
Hello everybody, then let’s go to the prototype of the small Vertical Transportation Tie-down Lug Plates. If you look closely, you can see on this photo from the STS-130 […]
A group of anonymous SpaceX employees say that founder and CEO Elon Musk’s recent behavior reflects badly on the company. An open letter to company executives was posted in an […]
The UltraFlex solar arrays on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unfold during a ground test at a Lockheed Martin test facility in Colorado. Credit: Lockheed Martin Engineers have made progress in attempts […]
Earlier this year, scientists from China’s Chang’E-5 lunar lander revealed they had found evidence of water in the form of hydroxyl from in-situ measurements taken while lander was on the […]
A galaxy in a telescope (or a Hubble image) may seem silent and still, but that’s only because us humans are impatient. Over millions or even billions of years, gravity […]
Video: 00:02:03 ESA’s Council at Ministerial level will take place in November 2022, a crucial milestone as Europe sets out its ambitions and plans for space activities in the coming […]
A new study from the University of Oxford revealed that patients taking statins had reduced negative emotional bias. Statins have been linked with reduced negative emotional bias With 17.3 million […]
Examples of galaxy pairs found in this study—here are examples of detected systems which are within close proximity to each other. Credit: C.Conselice et al Astronomers in the UK announce […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Planet revealed the value of its largest contract to date, a $146 million award from the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imagery over two years, during the […]
Update for 4:45 pm ET: The Virtual Telescope Project has canceled its Strawberry supermoon webcast due to cloudy weather. Here’s what to expect for the Strawberry supermoon in your night […]
Momentus’ Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle. Credit: Niall David / Momentus The first test flight of a commercial orbital transfer vehicle from Momentus is suffering from a problem with its solar […]