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Researchers study the roar of SpaceX’s Starship and its impact on communities and the environment (Image Credit: Phys.org) The BYU PASCAL research team from left to right: Kent Gee, Makayle Kellison, Noah Pulsipher, Logan Mathews, Grant Hart, and Mark Anderson in Boca Chica Beach. Texas. The team performed acoustical measurements at SpaceX’s […]
Video: Proba-3’s journey to see the sun’s corona (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: ESA-Magic Fennec The double-satellite Proba-3 is the most ambitious member yet of ESA’s Proba family of experimental missions. Two spacecraft will fly together as one, maintaining precise formation down to a single millimeter. One will block out the fiery disk […]
New giant radio galaxy discovered with MeerKAT (Image Credit: Phys.org) The optical HSC DR2 Wide combined 𝑔, 𝑟, 𝑖 band image of MGTC J100022.85+031520.4. Credit: Charlton et al., 2024. An international team of astronomers has employed the MeerKAT radio telescope to investigate giant radio galaxies in the field of the Cosmological Evolution […]
First pairs of white dwarf–main sequence binaries discovered in clusters shine new light on stellar evolution (Image Credit: Phys.org) This image from the ALMA telescope shows star system HD101584 and the complex gas clouds surrounding the binary. It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during […]
New DESI data shed light on gravity’s pull in the universe (Image Credit: Phys.org) DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here during the 2023 Geminid meteor shower. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences in the amount of matter present in the […]
Astronauts found to process some tasks slower in space, but no signs of permanent cognitive decline (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: CC0 Public Domain A stay in space exerts extreme pressures on the human body. Astronauts’ bodies and brains are impacted by radiation, altered gravity, challenging working conditions, and sleep loss—all of which […]
SpaceX’s sixth Starship test flight successful despite abandoning booster catch (Image Credit: Mashable) SpaceX conducted its sixth Starship test flight on Tuesday, with CEO Elon Musk joined by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to observe from the control room. While the launch went well, SpaceX quickly aborted plans to catch the first-stage Super […]
How long is a light-year? Here are some ways to think about it. (Image Credit: Mashable) Superman may fly faster than a speeding bullet, but he’d easily lose in a race against a beam of light, the fastest thing we know about in the universe. Light travels at a rate of 186,000 […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover heads to new puzzling Martian destination (Image Credit: Mashable) After a year of exploring a mysterious valley on Mars, NASA‘s intrepid Curiosity rover is headed to a new destination with its own intrigue. The Mini Cooper-sized robotic lab will study an unusual landscape, called a “boxwork,” that likely necessitated […]
Trump to attend SpaceX Starship’s 6th flight test today (Image Credit: Space.com) President-elect Donald Trump will watch the sixth SpaceX Starship launch in person today (Nov. 19). Trump confirmed his attendance at the Starship launch on X, formerly Twitter. “Good luck to Elon Musk and the Great Patriots involved in this incredible project,” Trump […]
