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Space-grown Lettuce Could Help Astronauts Avoid Bone Loss
SpaceRef - 24 Mar 2022 06:45
NASA is preparing to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. The 3-year mission will expose astronauts to a long period of microgravity, which will cause them to lose bone mass....
NASA Space Station Update 24 March, 2022 - Going Home
SpaceRef - 24 Mar 2022 23:30
The Expedition 66 crew is turning its attention to the departure of three crew members late next week following the completion of a pair of spacewalks....
Jessica Watkins: NASA astronaut and 1st Black woman to fly a long-duration spaceflight
SPACE.com - 24 Mar 2022 23:13
All about NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to embark on a long-duration space mission.
Panelists agree hiring remains the biggest challenge
Space News - 24 Mar 2022 21:43
Hiring remains the most serious challenge space companies face. The post Panelists agree hiring remains the biggest challenge appeared first on SpaceNews.
Astronomers See the Wreckage Where Planets Crashed Into Each Other in a Distant Star System
Universe Today - 24 Mar 2022 21:29
Our Solar System was born in chaos. Collisions shaped and built the Earth and the other planets, and even delivered the building blocks of life. Without things smashing into each other, we might not be here. Thankfully, ...
NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Record-Setting US Astronaut Return
NASA Breaking news - 24 Mar 2022 21:22Celebrity chef José Andrés is cooking for private Ax-1 astronauts
SPACE.com - 24 Mar 2022 21:20
The World Central Kitchen founder says the mission invokes "the spirit of eating paella from the same pan."
NASA finally opened 50-year-old Apollo moon rock sample as agency eyes human return to lunar surface
SPACE.com - 24 Mar 2022 21:00
In a long-awaited moment, NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon.
NASA finalizes plans for its next cosmic mapmaker
Phys.org - 24 Mar 2022 20:57
NASA's upcoming SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space Telescope. But the two observatories will take dramatically different approaches to studying the sky.
North Korea launches most powerful missile yet in 1st ICBM test since 2017: reports
SPACE.com - 24 Mar 2022 20:41
North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday (March 24), its first test of a long-range weapon-delivery system since 2017, according to media reports.
Accelerating satellite production timelines improving market health
Space News - 24 Mar 2022 19:43
Satellite makers are hopeful that higher frequency production rates will facilitate more innovation in the market, and fortify supply chains disrupted by the pandemic. The post Accelerating satellite production timelines...
The sun as you've never seen it: European probe snaps closest-ever photo of our star
SPACE.com - 24 Mar 2022 19:36
The European sun-chasing spacecraft Solar Orbiter has snapped the closest image of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.
New Radio Images of Bizarre "Odd Radio Circles" Which are Vastly Bigger Than the Milky Way
Universe Today - 24 Mar 2022 19:23
Strange galaxy-sized circles are emitting radio light, and we don't know why. The post New Radio Images of Bizarre “Odd Radio Circles” Which are Vastly Bigger Than the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.
Astronomers Discover two Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other, Doomed to Collide in the Future.
Universe Today - 24 Mar 2022 18:27
Until recently, one of the closest orbiting each other pairs of supermassive blackholes was found in NGC 7727. That pair is about 89 million light-years away from Earth. Those black holes are only 1,600 light-years apart...
Life as we know it would not exist without this highly unusual number
SPACE.com - 24 Mar 2022 18:25
The fine-structure constant is a seemingly random number with no units or dimensions, which has cropped up in so many places in physics, and seems to control one of the most fundamental interactions in the universe.
Researchers discover a mysterious type of wave in the sun with unexplained speed
Phys.org - 24 Mar 2022 18:00
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's (NYUAD) Center for Space Science have discovered a new set of waves in the sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel much faster than predicted by theory.
Investigating how magnetic fields heat gases on the sun by studying turbulence and wave theory
Phys.org - 24 Mar 2022 18:00
The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can't be said for the sun, but University of Otago scientists may have just explained a key part of why.
Millennium Space to launch to orbit a 3D printed satellite structure
Space News - 24 Mar 2022 17:56
Millennium Space Systems plans to launch to orbit a 3D printed metal flight structure the company intends to use to build its next generation of satellite buses. The post Millennium Space to launch to orbit a 3D printed ...
Tracking sunspots up close
ESA - 24 Mar 2022 17:45US Space Force Cis-lunar Highway Patrol System to patrol around the moon
Phys.org - 24 Mar 2022 17:09
As human activity extends outward into the solar system, we'll need a way to keep track of space junk, and the growing number of missions around the moon and beyond.
Next-generation telescopes could search for intelligent civilizations directly
Phys.org - 24 Mar 2022 16:40
We're still in the early days of searching for life elsewhere. The Perseverance rover is on its way to a paleo-delta on Mars to look for fossilized signs of ancient bacterial life. SETI's been watching the sky with radio...
'Halo' straps on the power armor for new live-action series on Paramount Plus
SPACE.com - 24 Mar 2022 16:26
Paramount Plus will finally debut their ambitious new "Halo" series today based on the iconic video game franchise from Microsoft/Bungie.