Space News
Massive underground laboratory in China joins the quest to find dark matter
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2024 00:00
A renovated Chinese underground lab has expanded the search for dark matter, offering new promise for the detection of this abundant yet elusive substance.
SpaceX to launch Indonesian communications satellite today
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2024 16:00
SpaceX plans to launch the Merah Putih 2 satellite for Indonesian communications company Telkomsat today (Feb. 20) during a two-hour window that opens at 3:11 p.m. EST (2011 GMT).
Black hole-like 'gravastars' could be stacked like Russian tea dolls
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2024 15:00
A new solution to Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests a hypothetical star could be made of stacked black holes.
Become a SunSketcher, and Help Measure the Shape of the Sun!
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 23:35
What shape Is the Sun? Hint: it's not perfectly round! Knowing precisely how the Sun's shape deviates from a sphere can teach us about its interior and test theories of gravity. You can help measure the Sun's shape by jo...
Sian Proctor on her legacy of being the 1st Black woman to pilot a spacecraft
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2024 23:31
Sian Proctor spoke to Space.com about her captivating story of a woman who soared past barriers to pave the way for more diversity and inclusivity in space.
The Brightest Object Ever Seen in the Universe
Universe Today - 20 Feb 2024 22:19
It’s an exciting time in astronomy today, where records are being broken and reset regularly. We are barely two months into 2023, and already new records have been set for the farthest black hole yet observed, the brig...
NASA Sets Coverage of First US Uncrewed Commercial Moon Landing
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 22:11
As part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines is targeting no earlier than 5:49 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 22, to land their Odysseus lunar lander near Malape...
NASA Tech Tuesday: Seeing is Communicating
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 21:15
Eye-tracking technology supported by NASA makes 'talking' possible for people who can't.
Annual Highlights of Results 2023: Introduction and Analyses
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 21:08
After 25 years of international collaboration operating the largest and most technologically advanced laboratory in low Earth orbit, the current decade of research results has seen thousands of researchers around the wor...
Everything we know about '3 Body Problem'
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2024 21:00
Here's everything we know about Netflix's upcoming sci-fi event series, "3 Body Problem"
Former Disney TV star Bridgit Mendler co-founds satellite 'data highway' startup
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2024 20:45
Once known for her beloved roles on Disney Channel, Bridgit Mendler has re-introduced herself as a CEO in the space business game.
Capturing a comet's tail to keep Earth safe from the sun
Phys.org - 20 Feb 2024 20:40
A comet is set to pass by Earth this spring, and it may be missing its tail.
Renee King: Ensuring Space for Everyone
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 20:25
Renee King calls herself Goddard Space Flight Center's conscience: She helps make sure that at NASA Goddard, there truly is space for everyone. Name: Renee KingTitle: Deputy Director of Equal OpportunityFormal Job Classi...
55 Years Ago: Five Months Until the Moon Landing
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 19:33
Following the success of the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission, NASA believed that it could achieve a Moon landing by the summer of 1969 and meet President John F. Kennedy's goal. Much work remained to accomplish that objecti...
NASA-Funded Science Projects Tuning In to 'Eclipse Radio'
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 19:23
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross parts of the United States. For millions of people along the path of totality, where the Moon will completely cover the Sun, it may feel like an eerie daytime darkness h...
NASA Astronaut Available for Interviews Prior to Space Station Mission
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 19:15
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is available in limited opportunities to discuss her mission beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 26. The interviews will take place ahead of Dyson launching to the International Space St...
NASA's New Horizons detects dusty hints of extended Kuiper Belt
Phys.org - 20 Feb 2024 19:10
New observations from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt--the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks--might stretch m...
Studying lake deposits in Idaho could give scientists insight into ancient traces of life on Mars
SPACE.com - 20 Feb 2024 19:00
Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? If so, how do scientists search for and identify it? Finding life beyond Earth is extremely difficult, partly because other planets are so far away and partly because we are not...
The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day
Phys.org - 20 Feb 2024 18:59
Scientists have now reported evidence of the true conditions in Hell, perhaps because no one has ever returned to tell the tale. Hell has been imagined as a supremely uncomfortable place, hot and hostile to bodily forms ...
NASA Leader Casey Swails Learns About Wildfire Work at NASA Ames
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 18:54
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA's Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, l...
NASA's New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
NASA Breaking news - 20 Feb 2024 18:28
New observations from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt - the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks - might stretch...
Unseenlabs books SpaceX to expand maritime surveillance constellation
Space News - 20 Feb 2024 18:11
French maritime surveillance provider Unseenlabs plans to launch its 12th and 13th nanosatellite no earlier than March, passing the halfway mark for a constellation slated to begin tracking vessels in near real-time in 2...