Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet sets new speed record during 7th test flight (Image Credit: Space.com) Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight. The Colorado company is working through a flight test program of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft, which completed its most recent test flight […]
NASA still mum about SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut’s medical issue (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA is not yet ready to tell us why one of its astronauts was hospitalized shortly after returning to Earth last month. That astronaut was one of the four members of SpaceX‘s Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), […]
SpaceX’s Dragon Conducts First ISS Boost Test, Pushing NASA Closer to Final Deorbit Mission (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) At 12:50 p.m. ET today (November 8), NASA and SpaceX monitored the Dragon spacecraft as it successfully demonstrated its ability to reboost the International Space Station, according to an agency press release. Dragon, using its […]
NASA Remains Stubbornly Silent on Why Crew Went to Hospital After Dragon Splashdown (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A press conference held earlier today was an opportunity for NASA to explain why four Crew-8 astronauts were sent to a hospital after splashing down on Earth on October 25, but the agency and its astronauts […]
Image: Astronaut captures photo of Earth from the International Space Station (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: NASA/Don Pettit Earth’s city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow of Earth’s atmosphere is also visible on the horizon. Since the station became […]
Proba-3 will constantly measure Sun’s energy output (Image Credit: Phys.org) Proba-3 orbit. Credit: European Space Agency Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft observe the sun’s faint surrounding atmosphere, its disk-bearing Occulter spacecraft must block out the […]
A space walking robot could build a giant telescope in space (Image Credit: Phys.org) Artist impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. Its design and construction were made more complicated and expensive because it had to fit into the nosecone of the rocket that launched it. Assembling telescopes in space could be […]
Spectral method can compute tidal effects on planet and moon interiors (Image Credit: Phys.org) The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that […]
Astrophysicists use echoes of light to illuminate black holes (Image Credit: Phys.org) Due to gravitational lensing, the photons from a single flash of light near a black hole follow winding paths. Some follow the trajectory of the blue line, where they take a direct path to the observer. Others orbit around the […]
Astronomers discover a new repeating fast radio burst (Image Credit: Phys.org) Total daily exposure time (UTC and topocentric at CHIME near Penticton, Canada) at the position of FRB 20240209A (blue points) and detection times of the repeat bursts (gray vertical lines). Credit: Shah et al., 2024. Using the CHIME telescope, an international […]
