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Watch Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launch to the ISS on Nov. 21 (Image Credit: Space.com) A Russian cargo spacecraft will launch toward the space station on Thursday morning (Nov. 21), and you can watch it live. A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the uncrewed Progress 90 spacecraft to the International Space […]
Expert Warns That Elon Musk May Gut NASA (Image Credit: futurism-com) Now that president-elect Donald Trump has solidified his bromance with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the role of NASA could start to look dramatically different. Trump has put Musk in charge of a so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” where the mercurial CEO has […]
‘Superhighways’ connecting the cosmic web could unlock secrets about dark matter (Image Credit: Space.com) Giant filaments crisscross the universe, connecting galaxy clusters like superhighways between cities. Their shape and structure encode vital information about the contents and history of the universe. But due to their complex shapes, they are stubbornly difficult to […]
Solar Orbiter spacecraft captures sharpest views yet of sun’s surface (images) (Image Credit: Space.com) The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun’s surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the European Space Agency (ESA) shared four new images the […]
Scientists find extremely young exoplanet orbiting star with a wonky disk (Image Credit: Space.com) To date, over 5,500 exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than the sun — have been discovered, and a large portion of those alien worlds have been observed via something called “the transit method.” It refers to […]
Somewhere in the multiverse, dark energy is helping stars and life form (Image Credit: Space.com) Somewhere in the multiverse, there could be universes more predisposed to forming stars, and possibly life, than our own universe —- and a new study has shown that it’s all thanks to the most unlikely of suspects: […]
ISS fires thrusters to dodge hunk of space junk (Image Credit: Space.com) The International Space Station took some evasive action on Tuesday (Nov. 19). A Russian Progress cargo ship that’s docked to the ISS fired its thrusters for 5.5 minutes on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 3:09 p.m. EST (2009 GMT). The goal […]
‘There are lots of mysteries in our backyard’: Revised solar system chemistry explains long-standing puzzles (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers say they have figured out the true chemical makeup of our solar system, revealing that it contained much more carbon, oxygen and nitrogen than previously thought. Chiefly, the finding could help explain why […]
Did NASA’s Perseverance rover find organics on Mars? These scientists aren’t so sure (Image Credit: Space.com) The quest to find life beyond our planet has captivated humanity for decades, driving missions that continue to push deeper into the solar system. Last summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars when […]
Houston, Our Brains Don’t Work So Great Up Here (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A new study is shedding light on the lesser known effects of space on cognitive behavior and how astronauts’ slower performance could impact our ability to embark on long duration journeys through the cosmos. A team of researchers from NASA’s […]
