Space News
There's a big rock stuck inside one of Perseverance's wheels
Phys.org - 9 Mar 2022 13:59
It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was selected by public input as the "Image of the Week" for Week 54 (Feb. 20-26, 2022) of the ...
SpaceX to launch 48 Starlink satellites, land rocket Wednesday morning: Watch live
SPACE.com - 9 Mar 2022 02:09
SpaceX will launch four dozen Starlink internet satellites and land the returning rocket on Wednesday (March 9), and you can watch the action live.
How did Earth go From Molten Hellscape to Habitable Planet?
Universe Today - 9 Mar 2022 23:53
Earth formed from the Sun’s protoplanetary disk about 4.6 billion years ago. In the beginning, it was a molten spheroid with scorching temperatures. Over time, it cooled, and a solid crust formed. Eventually, the atmos...
'Star Trek: Picard' season 2 explodes onto our screens with a phenomenal first episode
SPACE.com - 9 Mar 2022 22:52
Has Q's taste in men's fashion improved? Will he have cheap, red wine-stained lips again? All these questions - and more, are answered in this enthralling first episode
Big asteroid slammed into Greenland just a few million years after the dinosaurs died out
SPACE.com - 9 Mar 2022 22:11
Hidden under Greenland's thick ice sheet, scientists found what they thought was the scar of an asteroid impact perhaps just thousands of years old, fresh enough that humans were already on the scene.
Buzz Aldrin's famous 1969 moon walk picture sells at auction
Phys.org - 9 Mar 2022 21:42
More than 70 original NASA photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin's moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000).
How SpaceX got Starlink up and running in Ukraine: report
SPACE.com - 9 Mar 2022 21:34
Officials at SpaceX worked for six weeks to bring Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine ahead of a government request from that country.
Light-1 CubeSat Deployed From The Space Station
SpaceRef - 9 Mar 2022 21:21
A view of the deployed Light-1 CubeSat. The Light-1 CubeSat focuses on the detection of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) coming from the Earth's atmosphere....
Minnesota From Orbit
SpaceRef - 9 Mar 2022 21:19
The snow and ice-covered state of Minnesota on its southeast border with Wisconsin is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above....
Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys Celebrates 20 Years of Discovery
SpaceRef - 9 Mar 2022 21:14
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....
NASA Space Station Update 9 March, 2022 - Space Exercise and Space Physics Today
SpaceRef - 9 Mar 2022 21:12
Space exercise and space physics were the main research topics aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday....
Emirates Mars Mission Tracks Martian Dust Storms
SpaceRef - 9 Mar 2022 21:12
The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, is returning a number of unique observations of Martian dust storms, providing unparalleled depth of information and insight i...
Researchers unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters
Phys.org - 9 Mar 2022 21:00
The inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters have been unraveled by a collaboration of international researchers led by the University of Oxford, University of Rochester and the University of Chicago.
What Would a Sustainable Space Environment Look Like?
Universe Today - 9 Mar 2022 20:32
A new study paints a dire picture about Earth's orbital debris environment and highlights the need for mitigation strategies The post What Would a Sustainable Space Environment Look Like? appeared first on Universe Today...
NASA would get $24 billion in new omnibus spending bill
SPACE.com - 9 Mar 2022 20:19
NASA will get just over $24 billion this year, if Congress is able to pass a newly devised omnibus spending bill.
UK bans space-related exports to Russia
Space News - 9 Mar 2022 19:27
New trade sanctions aimed at Russia's space sector were announced March 9 by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The post UK bans space-related exports to Russia appeared first on SpaceNews.
Astronomy Jargon 101: Quasar
Universe Today - 9 Mar 2022 19:02
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be feeling very powerful after today’s topic: the quasar! In the 1950’s radio astronomers got quite a surprise. They thought ...
Around a monster black hole, smaller black holes collide in strange ways
SPACE.com - 9 Mar 2022 18:05
Take three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast.
Pristine asteroid Ryugu contains amino acids that are building blocks of life
SPACE.com - 9 Mar 2022 18:00
Samples from asteroid Ryugu are the most pristine pieces of our solar system ever studied and contain amino acids that could have given rise to life on Earth.
Black hole billiards in the centers of galaxies may explain black hole mergers
Phys.org - 9 Mar 2022 18:00
Researchers have provided the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, no...
Study sheds more light on the nature of millisecond pulsar PSR J0955'6150
Phys.org - 9 Mar 2022 17:58
An international team of astronomers has performed timing observations of an eccentric millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0955'6150. Results of the observational campaign, published March 1 on the arXiv pre-print server, d...
Team chosen to be first to make oxygen on the moon
Phys.org - 9 Mar 2022 17:05
Following a competition, ESA has selected the industrial team that will design and build the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from the surface of the moon. The winning consortium, led by Thales Alenia Space i...