Space News
New NASA Report Suggests We Could See Space-Based Power After 2050
Universe Today - 17 Feb 2024 03:25
Space-based solar power (SBSP) has been in the news recently, with the successful test of a solar power demonstrator in space taking place last summer. While the concept is fundamentally sound, there are plenty of hurdle...
Japan's new H3 rocket reaches orbit for 1st time (video)
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 03:11
Japan's new H3 rocket reached orbit for the first time today (Feb. 16), bouncing back from a failure on its debut test flight nearly a year ago.
Private Odysseus moon lander beams home 1st photos from space
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 22:03
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander has beamed home its first photos from the final frontier, gorgeous selfies that show its home planet in the background.
Can the Gaia Hypothesis Be Tested in the Lab?
Universe Today - 17 Feb 2024 20:27
During the 1970s, inventor/environmentalist James Lovelock and evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed the Gaia Hypothesis. This theory posits that Earth is a single, self-regulating system where the atmosphere, hy...
Why Interstellar Objects Like 'Oumuamua and Borisov May Hold Clues To Exoplanets
Discover - 17 Feb 2024 20:00
The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 98 -- Inside NASA with Pam Melroy
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 16:43
On Episode 98 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss what NASA's up to with the agency's Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy.
Image: Hubble views a massive star forming
Phys.org - 17 Feb 2024 16:20
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and activity. It features a relatively close star-forming region known as IRAS 16562-3959, which lies within the Milky Way about 5,900 light-years...
Uruguay signs Artemis Accords for responsible space exploration
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 16:00
Uruguay has joined the Artemis Accords, the United States' effort to establish widespread principles to guide space exploration.
Newborn gas planets may be surprisingly flat, says new research
Phys.org - 17 Feb 2024 15:50
A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar disk. My colleagues and I have used computer simulations to show that newborn gas planets in these disks are likely to h...
Get a sneak peek inside the Artemis 2 spacecraft that will fly astronauts to the moon for the 1st time in 50 years (photos)
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 15:00
NASA just released photos of the Orion spacecraft that will send four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis 2 mission, which will lift off no earlier than September 2025.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket simulator seen on launchpad from space (photos)
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 15:00
Satellites captured Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket standing upright at Launch Complex 36 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA's Voyager 1 glitch has scientists sad yet hopeful: 'Voyager 2 is still going strong'
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 14:21
Voyager 1 hasn't spoken since December of last year. Scientists are trying to fix the historic probe, but they're also preparing to say goodbye.
Solar eclipse jam: How to avoid getting stuck in traffic on April 8, 2024
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 13:00
Here's how to avoid getting stuck in traffic when heading to see the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.
Last chance! Grab the Lego Marvel Black Panther bust for 40% off
SPACE.com - 17 Feb 2024 03:00
Get this iconic 2,961-piece Lego Marvel model before it's retired forever.
Discovery Alert: Glowing Cloud Points to a Cosmic Collision
NASA Breaking news - 17 Feb 2024 02:55
Scientists find that a glowing cloud that obscured a star was caused by a cataclysmic collision of two giant exoplanets.
Thales Alenia Space to supply NEO Surveyor communications equipment
Space News - 17 Feb 2024 00:40
Thales Alenia Space will supply NEO Surveyor's S-band transponder, K-band modulator and K-band travelling wave tube amplifier to transmit data 1.5 million kilometers between L1 and Earth. The post Thales Alenia Space to ...
Eutelsat scales back OneWeb Gen 2 upgrade plan
Space News - 17 Feb 2024 00:34
Eutelsat has decided to hold off deploying significantly upgraded OneWeb broadband satellites to instead focus on adding continuity of service capacity for customers with long-term contracts, the French fleet operator sa...