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Astronaut Suni Williams ‘in good health’ on the ISS, NASA says, refuting tabloid claims (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA astronaut Suni Williams is in good health in Earth orbit, despite some speculation in the media to the contrary, according to the agency. Tabloids such as The Daily Mail and The New York Post […]
Can SpaceX Bring Down the ISS? An Upcoming Test Could Be the First Step (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) NASA is preparing for the retirement of the International Space Station (ISS) by figuring out the best way to toss it in the ocean. To that end, the space agency plans to use SpaceX’s Dragon […]
Image: Exceptionally rare triple ring galaxy (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Subaru Telescope The Hubble Classification, also known as the Hubble Sequence, is a widely recognized method for systematically categorizing galaxy morphology. Galaxies are classified into elliptical, lenticular, and spiral (or barred spiral) galaxies. Galaxies with irregular shapes that do not fit into […]
Venus’ ‘missing’ giant impact craters may be hiding in plain sight (Image Credit: Space.com) Impact features on Venus may have been staring us in the face all along That’s the message from a team of planetary scientists, who have explained Venus‘ apparent dearth of large craters by discovering that impacts could have […]
SpaceX’s Dragon is about to do something to the ISS it’s never done before (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX will boost the space station for the first time Friday (Nov. 8), as the company prepares to eventually kill the orbiting complex. A Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) will […]
This black hole just did something theoretically impossible (Image Credit: Mashable) The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought impossible. Astronomers trained the instrument on a number of galaxies in deep space, and at the center of one galaxy spotted a young, dwarf black hole triggering enormous outbursts […]
Space Innovation Lab experiment heads to International Space Station (Image Credit: Phys.org) Alsaleh Group. Credit: University of Oxford The first human tissue samples from Oxford’s Space Innovation Lab (SIL) have been launched and are on their way to the International Space Station, where they will be used to study the effects of […]
Latest space station science reveals news for astronaut health and telescope longevity (Image Credit: Phys.org) ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer demonstrates the Bioprint FirstAid prototype during preflight training. Credit: German Aerospace Center/European Space Agency Recent findings from the International Space Station address wound healing, fine motor control in space, and […]
Moon waves goodbye to Hera (Image Credit: Phys.org) Hera and its CubeSats connected by inter-satellite links. Credit: ESA-Science Office As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around it. In this sequence of images the terrestrial disk gradually shrinks as […]
SpaceX launches space station resupply mission with sonic boom warning from booster return (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX sent up 6,000 pounds of cargo on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on Monday night with the rocket booster’s return trip bringing a sonic boom to parts of […]
