See Mercury and Venus in the predawn sky this week
The two "inferior" planets are teaming up with the moon and one of the brightest stars in the sky to put on a lovely show in the p...Read More
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Showing posts with label Space News. Show all posts
China's real lunar rover rolls 'Over the Moon' in Netflix animated film
China's lunar rover helped animators add what Walt Disney once called the "plausible impossible" to the new animated film &quo...Read More
SpaceX now targeting Nov. 14 for next astronaut launch
SpaceX will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Nov. 14, the agency announced Monday (Oct. 26). from Spa...Read More
NASA SLS megarocket shortage causes tug-of-war between moon missions, Europa exploration
NASA is choosing between human missions to the moon and a robotic mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa as the agency manages its limited...Read More
Volcanoes fuel gaseous atmosphere on Jupiter's moon Io
What is creating the bubbling, gaseous atmosphere on Jupiter's moon Io? Scientists think they finally have the answer: volcanoes. from...Read More
Life on Earth: Why we may have the moon's now defunct magnetic field to thank for it
These fields are generated thousands of kilometres below the planet’s surface in its liquid core and extend far into space – shielding the a...Read More
5 ways families can enjoy astronomy during the pandemic
The night sky is, and always has been, safe and free. from Space.com https://ift.tt/3dXeaxw Read More
Artificial intelligence helps classify new craters on Mars
An innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by NASA has helped identify a cluster of craters on Mars that formed within the la...Read More
Meet the zeptosecond, the shortest unit of time ever measured
Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever, the time it takes for a particle of light to cross a hydrogen molecule. from Spac...Read More
Buck Rogers finally set to return to both the big and small screen: report
What will life in the post-apocalyptic Earth of the 25th Century look like? from Space.com https://ift.tt/37zXlYk Read More
'Lost' tectonic plate called Resurrection hidden under the Pacific
A new computer reconstruction of the tectonic plates of 60 million years ago reveals the existence of a lost plate called Resurrection. fr...Read More
NASA asteroid probe is overflowing with space-rock samples
OSIRIS-REx snagged so much dirt and rock from the asteroid Bennu on Tuesday that the probe's sampling mechanism didn't close properl...Read More
Soyuz crew lands from space station ahead of ISS 20-year milestone
A NASA astronaut "sealed" 20 years of crewed operations aboard the International Space Station with his and his crewmates' saf...Read More
NASA's first attempt to sample an asteroid in space made a mess. It's the best mess ever, scientists say.
A NASA spacecraft has really made a mess of things on the asteroid Bennu, and scientists are thrilled. OSIRIS-REx performed well in its samp...Read More
Rocket Lab scrubs launch of 10 Earth-observation satellites due to sensor readings
Ten Earth-observation satellites will have to wait at least another day to get off the ground. from Space.com https://ift.tt/31v7PV2 Read More
SpaceX just launched 60 new Starlink internet satellites and nailed rocket landing at sea
SpaceX successfully launched a full stack of Starlink internet satellites into today (Oct. 18) and capped off the mission with a successful ...Read More
Astronaut requirements changing rapidly with private spaceflyers, long-duration missions
Being an astronaut of the 2020s will be completely different than it was for any astronaut that came before, a panel of spaceflyers told the...Read More
The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week! Here's what to expect.
It's an excellent year to view the Orionids, which peak before dawn on Wednesday (Oct. 21). from Space.com https://ift.tt/37iGTLK Read More
Physicists keep trying to break the rules of gravity but this supermassive black hole just said 'no'
A new test of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has proved the 20th Century physicist right again, this time using a superm...Read More
Watch Venus glide by in this serene video from the BepiColombo spacecraft's flyby
A European-Japanese spacecraft just flew by Venus on its long, winding road to Mercury, snapping some stellar photos along the way. from S...Read More
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