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‘Lunik Heist:’ A real-life CIA rocket kidnapping goes to Hollywood (Image Credit: Space.com) Now in the works is a retro look back in time at a bizarre Cold War caper by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) thanks to a forthcoming, star-studded comedy/drama movie called “Lunik Heist.” Earlier this month, Searchlight Pictures, a […]
Big Bang: Trump and Musk could redefine US space strategy (Image Credit: Phys.org) Donald Trump’s fascination with space is nothing new — during his first term he created Space Force and launched the Artemis program to return to the moon. Should NASA return to the moon, or go straight to Mars? Maintain […]
A new way to detect daisy worlds (Image Credit: Phys.org) Daisy Worlds are planets where the biosphere regulates the environment to keep it habitable. Earth is one, sort of. Can we use information theory to identify agnostic biosignatures from these living worlds? Credit: NASA The daisy world model describes a hypothetical planet […]
Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars (Image Credit: futurism-com) Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA’s Viking 1 mission in 1976 saw two spacecraft land on the Red Planet’s surface […]
Where did the universe’s magnetic fields come from? (Image Credit: Space.com) How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant “dust battery” operating when the first stars appeared. Magnetic fields are everywhere in the […]
Documentary director redefines astronaut Eileen Collins as the ‘Spacewoman’ (interview) (Image Credit: Space.com) The dictionary defines “spacewoman” as simply “a woman astronaut.” In the case of its latest usage, though, the term carries more meaning. “Spacewoman,” a new documentary from Haviland Digital and Tigerlily Productions, tells the story of Eileen Collins, the […]
SpaceX stacks Flight 6 Starship megarocket ahead of Nov. 19 launch (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX’s Starship megarocket has come together ahead of its sixth-ever test flight next week. SpaceX has stacked Starship‘s two elements — the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper-stage spacecraft — on the orbital launch mount at its […]
USC students set world record with high-flying rocket launch (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The University of Southern California’s student rocketeers have done it again. The USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) — which in 2019 became the first student organization ever to launch a rocket to space — sent its Aftershock II vehicle […]
The space station is leaking. Why it hasn’t imperiled the mission. (Image Credit: Mashable) Some of the main modules of the International Space Station are nearly a quarter-century old. “That’s considered classic for a car,” said Bennett Maruca, an astronomer and physicist at the University of Delaware. So it’s little surprise one […]
Earth’s mini moon could be a chunk of the big moon, scientists say (Image Credit: Mashable) A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far longer in the sky than humans have roamed […]
