NASA’s oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling “home” for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station on the same day that he turned 70. Continue ReadingNASA’s oldest active astronaut lands with space station crewmates on his 70th birthday
The best possible balance between magnification, size and build quality. The Lunt SunOculars 8×32 are the go-to solar binoculars for eclipses and sunspot viewing. Continue ReadingLunt SunOculars 8×32 solar binoculars review
In a study co-authored by a Texas A&M University scientist, researchers have revealed new insights into the geological history of Mars’s Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Their findings suggest that the crater’s floor is composed of a diverse array of iron-rich volcanic rocks, providing a window into the planet’s distant past and the closest chance yet to uncover signs of ancient life.
China sent six experimental Shiyan series satellites into orbit late Friday Eastern, using its Long March 6A rocket launched from Taiyuan. The post China launches 6 classified experimental satellites with Long March 6A appeared first on SpaceNews.
On Easter Sunday (April 20), NASA’s Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock. Continue ReadingNASA’s Lucy probe will fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday
If you’re a fan of XCOM and the Star Wars’ Clone Wars era, you’re in luck. Zero Company is coming in 2026. Continue Reading‘Star Wars: Zero Company’ is a new X-COM-style strategy video game set during the Clone Wars, and it’s coming in 2026 (video)
This week, the Curiosity rover found large carbon deposits on Mars, suggesting an ancient carbon cycle. Researchers exploring the domestication of cats believe they may have originally pounced out of Tunisia. And researchers in Michigan report that during the shift of Earth’s magnetic pole 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have protected themselves from harmful solar radiation with technologies including clothing, shelter and prehistoric sunscreen.
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious for life. Despite the red planet’s brutality, lichens that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth could possibly survive there. Lichens are symbionts, or two organisms that are in a cooperative relationship. There is a fungal component (most are about 90 percent fungus) and a photosynthetic component (algae or cyanobacteria). Continue ReadingLichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars
On Episode 157 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik invite Chief Master Sergeant John Bentivegna to the podcast to discuss the Space Force. Continue ReadingThis Week In Space podcast: Episode 157 — Space Force!
New episode “Lux” reveals that characters talking directly to the audience was just the start. Continue ReadingWhat’s with all the fourth wall breaking in ‘Lux’, the latest episode of ‘Doctor Who’?
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station this evening (April 19), and you can watch it live. Continue ReadingWatch NASA astronaut Don Pettit and 2 cosmonauts return to Earth today
More states are lining up in a bid to host NASA’s headquarters, but the prize they seek may turn out to be smaller than they expect. The post States bid to host a revamped NASA headquarters appeared first on SpaceNews.
Huang Dandan/Liu Dongyu, taken from Town, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, China The stars spin above the north-south-aligned antennas of the Interplanetary Scintillation Observation (IPS) Telescope, China’s first radio telescope for studying interplanetary scintillation. This stacked image was captured with a Sony mirrorless camera and 14mm lens, with 15-second exposures at f/3.2 and ISO 5000. The post Scintillating star trails appeared first on Astronomy Magazine. Continue ReadingScintillating star trails
Astrobiologists are dying to send another mission to study Enceladus, the icy moon that orbits Saturn and has active plumes emanating from its surface, A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) proposes an Enceladus Orbitlander that would conduct in-situ measurements of Enceladus’ plumes, which could confirm the presence of organics and maybe even life in its interior.
Using NASA’s Perseverance rover to analyze Martian rocks, researchers suggest that Mars’ complex volcanism might hold clues about the planet’s ancient habitability. Continue ReadingCould Mars volcanoes have supported ancient life on the Red Planet? Well, maybe
Landing off the coast of the Bahamas offers SpaceX new rocket flight trajectories. Continue ReadingBahamas puts SpaceX rocket landings on hold pending review: report
In our neighborhood of the Milky Way, we see a region surrounding the solar system that is far less dense than average. But that space, that cavity, is a very irregular, elongated shape. What little material is left inside of this cavity is insanely hot, as it has a temperature of around a million Kelvin.
According to a recent study by the non-profit Explore Titan, a nuclear-fission propulsion spacecraft could enable the first crewed mission to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
Russia’s Alexey Ovchinin handed the keys of the International Space Station to Japanese spaceflyer Takuya Onishi in a change-of-command ceremony today (April 18). Continue Reading‘Take care of our station. It’s our everything.’ Russian cosmonaut hands control of ISS over to Japanese astronaut (video)
NASA’s PUNCH sun-studying mission has seen first light — and the team says all four instruments are indeed working as expected. Continue ReadingNASA’s sun-studying PUNCH mission captures its 1st-light images. Everything looks great so far
