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Cosmic rays could help assess hidden war damage in Ukraine (Image Credit: Space.com) Energetic particles that pop briefly into existence when cosmic rays hit Earth’s atmosphere could help assess hidden damage to buildings in Ukraine after the war ends. These particles — known as muons — are very strange. They are birthed […]
Could dark matter have been forged in a ‘Dark Big Bang?’ (Image Credit: Space.com) Our common understanding of the universe tells us that all matter and energy were created at the beginning of time during a period of rapid inflation called the Big Bang. However, in 2023, Katherine Freese, director of the […]
Venus’ past is mysterious. But scientists just revealed a big clue. (Image Credit: Mashable) Even robots die quickly on Venus. The most long-lived of the 10 Venusian landers, the Soviet Union’s Venera 13 probe, lasted two hours before succumbing to pizza oven-like temperatures of some 870 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius) and […]
Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. HELSINKI — China launched a new communication engineering test satellite early Tuesday, adding to a series of satellites potentially for undisclosed military purposes. A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 12:56 a.m. Eastern (0556 UTC) Dec. […]
U.S. Navy awards X-Bow $60 million to modernize solid rocket production facilities (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — X-Bow Systems has won $60 million in Navy contracts to modernize solid rocket production facilities as the […]
A CubeSat mission to Phobos could map staging bases for a Mars landing (Image Credit: Phys.org) Engineering Model of the Perseus Spacecraft. Credit: Nallapu et al. The moons of Mars are garnering increased attention, not only because they could provide a view of the solar system’s past but also because they could […]
NASA is seeking ideas for rescuing an astronaut from the moon (Image Credit: Phys.org) Logo of the South Pole Safety Challenge Credit: NASA / HeroX Space exploration is a dangerous business, especially when squishy living organisms, such as humans, are involved. NASA has always prided itself on how seriously it takes the […]
Interstellar objects can’t hide from Vera Rubin (Image Credit: Phys.org) Artist impression of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as it travels through our solar system. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello We have studied the skies for centuries, but we have only found two objects known to come from another star system. The first interstellar […]
China set to build next-generation BeiDou system (Image Credit: Sat News) A Long March 3B lifts off from Xichang carrying the 59th and 60th Beidou navigation satellites into orbit, Sept. 19 (UTC), 2024. Credit: CASC China is planning to develop its next-generation BeiDou system, which will be technologically more advanced and functionally […]
BepiColombo’s fifth Mercury flyby (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: European Space Agency On Sunday 1 December 2024, BepiColombo flew past the planet Mercury for the fifth time, readying itself for entering orbit around the solar system’s mysterious innermost planet in 2026. The spacecraft flew between Mercury and the sun, getting to within 37,630 […]
