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NASA’s next-gen Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope gets its powerful eye (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists working on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have achieved a significant milestone in assembling the next-generation observatory, which aims to address critical questions about dark matter, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics. The Optical Telescope Assembly, a […]
I’m Just a Baby: Warped Disk Exposes Newborn Planet, One of the Youngest Ever Discovered (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) The universe is no place for an infant world. As youngins, planets are shrouded by the orbiting disk of material from which they formed, hiding them from view. But a research team’s analysis of […]
‘Marching orders haven’t changed’: New Artemis mobile launcher takes shape amid uncertain future (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Edvin Richardson from Pexels Months after an alarmist review from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, hundreds of construction workers seem out to prove their critics wrong as progress picks up steam on the Artemis […]
SpaceX lofts 24 Starlink satellites in midnight launch from Florida (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at midnight EST […]
How much are asteroids really worth? (Image Credit: Phys.org) Asteroid mining concept. Credit: NASA/Denise Watt Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in the asteroid belt, as visiting a body worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, presumably because their authors like […]
Ryugu asteroid samples indicate damage from microscopic meteoroid bombardment (Image Credit: Phys.org) Snapshots of micrometeoroid bombardment simulations at different timescales with a velocity of 20 km/s (a) and 300 km/s (b). Dot color represents elements of serpentine as follows: magnesium (yellow), silica (gray), oxygen (red) and hydrogen (blue). Fs is femtoseconds, representing […]
Observing dark matter at cosmic dawn (Image Credit: Phys.org) A simulated dark matter halo from a many-body cosmological simulation. Credit: Wikipedia via CC BY-SA 3.0 After almost a century of speculation, proposals and searches for dark matter, physicists now know that it currently comprises about 27% of the universe’s mass-energy, with an […]
SpaceX to launch next-gen US spy satellites, 20 Starlink spacecraft from California early Nov. 30 (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX plans to launch another batch of U.S. spy satellites early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday during a […]
Mysterious, record-breaking energy burst connected to dead star and red dwarf (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking burst of energy coming from deep space, tracing it to a binary system containing a tiny red dwarf star and a dead stellar remnant called a white dwarf. The team from the Curtin […]
SpaceX launching 24 Starlink satellites from Florida early Nov. 30 (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX plans to launch 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]
