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All astronauts still in good health on ISS, NASA flight surgeon says amid new tabloid rumors (Image Credit: Space.com) Last week, media outlets like The New York Post and The Daily Mail claimed that International Space Station astronaut Suni Williams’ health was deteriorating — and today, (Nov. 13), similar conjectures were made […]
NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Shouldn’t Have to Discuss Her Weight to Dismiss Tabloid Rumors (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Floating in a microgravity environment that’s 250 miles above Earth’s surface hasn’t spared Suni Williams from inappropriate comments about her body, forcing the NASA astronaut to issue a public statement on her weight. In response […]
Is an ‘off-year’ Leonid outburst in the cards for November? (Image Credit: Phys.org) The 1999 Leonids seen from NASA’s airborne Leonid MAC campaign. Credit: NASA/Ames Research/ISAS/Shinsuke Abe/Hajime Yuno. It’s still one of the coolest things I ever saw. I was in the U.S. Air Force in the 90s, and November 1998 saw […]
A mission to Triton and Neptune could unlock their mysteries (Image Credit: Phys.org) Global color mosaic of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, […]
How did supermassive black holes get so big, so early? They might have had a head start (Image Credit: Phys.org) An artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole (SMBH.) The JWST has revealed SMBHs in the early universe that are much more massive than our scientific models can explain. Could primordial black […]
Philae’s extraordinary comet landing relived (Image Credit: Phys.org) Rosetta’s lander Philae safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: European Space Agency On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta’s lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on […]
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions (Image Credit: Phys.org) An SwRI-led team proposes new solar elemental abundances that potentially reconcile longstanding questions for the first time. A broad set of interdisciplinary data indicates higher levels of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in the sun than previously thought, yielding […]
It Sounds Like NASA’s Moon Rocket Might Be Getting Canceled (Image Credit: futurism-com) NASA’s plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the Moon in over half a century, is on thin ice. According to Ars Technica senior space reporter Eric Berger’s insider sources, there’s […]
Galaxies get tangled up in ‘the queen’s hair’ in new Hubble Telescope image (Image Credit: Space.com) The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the “queen’s hair.” The galactic duo, formally known as MCG+05-31-045, is located 390 million light-years away in the constellation […]
‘Snowball Earth:’ Entire planet was likely covered in ice more than 600 million years ago (Image Credit: Space.com) Anyone living on Earth between 720 million and 635 million years ago probably would’ve needed a jacket. Geologists have long suspected that Earth’s temperature dropped dramatically during this time, resulting in a frigid “Snowball […]
