NASA’s FERMI Satellite Hunts for Extremely Long-wavelength Gravitational-Wave Signals Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational…
SpaceX’s brand-new Dragon spacecraft – named “Freedom” by the Crew-4 astronauts – arrived at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on April 16, 2022, after…
Drilling is on hold while the rover focuses on driving, so the sampling team is off studying the data we have acquired so far. What…
Testing our mega Moon rocket and ground systems … Preparing the James Webb Space Telescope for science … And testing an instrument for future X-59…
We covered the rapid traverse of Perseverance to the Delta in a recent article. This article will cover the Delta itself, and why it is…
On the surface of Mars, a layer of carbon dioxide frost (dry ice) forms every winter. At its maximum extent in mid-winter, this frost reaches…
An international effort led by astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark, have identified a distant object…
Although the photo above isn’t new (it was captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on September 8, 2021),…
When astronauts leave their crew quarters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for their lunar mission, NASA’s Artemis II crew will ride in a…
The journey of commissioning the Webb telescope continues this week with the successful cooling of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), through the critical ‘pinch point,’ down…
The next full moon is the Pink Moon, the Sprouting Grass, Egg, or Fish Moon; the Pesach, Passover, or Paschal Moon; the Hanuman Jayanti Festival…
Nova outbursts are apparently a source for cosmic rays. The MAGIC telescopes have observed the nova RS Ophiuchi shining brightly in gamma rays at extremely…
NASA and SpaceX are preparing for a Commercial Crew swap taking place this month at the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1)…
What Is a Black Hole? Black holes are objects so dense, and with so much mass, that even light cannot escape their gravitational pull. Black…
Teams concluded today’s wet dress rehearsal test at approximately 5:10 p.m. EDT after observing a liquid hydrogen (LH2) leak on the tail service mast umbilical,…
The Space Launch System rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) and boosters were powered up overnight. Teams are in the process of clearing all non-essential…
Bizarre, Evolutionary Missing Link Uncovered in Hubble Deep Survey of Galaxies The universe is so saturated with galaxies that even the weirdest things can go…
It was a very busy day aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, as the 11-person crew focused on human research experiments…