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How do you vote from space? NASA astronauts cast 2024 election ballots from ISS (Image Credit: Space.com) Election day in the United States is Tuesday, Nov. 4, and even American astronauts living in space are taking the time to fulfill their civic duty and cast their votes. There are four Americans currently aboard the Internationals […]
Space Force’s mysterious X-37B begins ‘aerobraking’ to lower orbit. Here’s how it works (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) ‘The U.S. military’s highly secretive X-37B space plane just got a little less mysterious. In a rare show of openness about the space plane’s operations, Boeing and the U.S. Space Force released a statement last month explaining that […]
India delays its 1st-ever Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2026 (Image Credit: Space.com) India plans to launch astronauts for the first time no sooner than 2026, roughly a year past the previously known timeline, following a series of uncrewed flight tests slated to begin in December. Speaking at an invited talk in New Delhi last week, […]
Scientists prepare for the most ambitious sky survey yet, anticipating new insight on dark matter and dark energy (Image Credit: Phys.org) Simulated images of the cosmos from the DC2 simulated sky survey conducted by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). DC2 simulated five years of image data as […]
Black hole study challenges Kerr solution assumptions (Image Credit: Phys.org) Left: Specific realization for the Misner-Sharp mass in Eq. (18) and parameters 𝑀0=10, ℓ=1,𝑣𝑖=−20, 𝑣𝑓=1000, 𝑠1=1, 𝑠2=1/40. The radius of the outgoing shell is set initially at 𝑅(𝑣=30)=5. Right: Misner-Sharp mass 𝑀+(𝑣,𝑅(𝑣)) in the region interior to the outgoing shell for an illustrative example 𝑚(𝑣)=−𝛽[1+𝜀cos(𝜔𝑣)/𝑣]/𝑣𝑝 […]
Blue Origin hauls massive New Glenn 1st stage to launch site with hot fire up next (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Blue Origin hauled the immense first stage booster for its upcoming debut launch of its New Glenn rocket to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 30th. Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp […]
Learning more about supernovae through stardust (Image Credit: Phys.org) Pair of presolar grains from the Murchison meteorite. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Energy Most of the diverse elements in the universe come from supernovae. We are, quite literally, made of the dust of those long-dead stars and other astrophysical processes. But the details of […]
The Taurid meteor showers peak a week apart in November (Image Credit: Phys.org) This 2014 image provided by NASA shows a Taurid fireball recorded at the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station in Tullahoma, Tenn. Credit: NASA via AP Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies—and will peak a week apart. The […]
China space station crew returns to Earth after 6 months in space (Image Credit: Phys.org) In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, astronaut Li Guangsu waves as he is carried out of the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-18 manned space mission after it landed successfully at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China’s Inner […]
SpaceX plans to launch nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) today (Nov. 4), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 9:29 p.m. EST (0129 GMT on Tuesday, […]
