Third European Service Module for Artemis Mission to Land Astronauts on the Moon
It’s official: when astronauts land on the Moon in 2024 they will get there with help from the European Service Module. The European Space Agency…
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Orbital Use Fees Proposed As the Most Effective Way to Solve the Space Junk Problem
Internationally agreed upon fees to put satellites in orbit could boost value of the space industry. Space is getting crowded. Aging satellites and space debris…
Cosmic Fast Radio Bursts Detect Universe’s “Missing Matter” – Solving a Decades-Old Mystery
Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter,’ long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected—until…
Strange New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered by Astronomers
Blasts differ from ‘ordinary’ supernovae, gamma-ray bursts. Astronomers have found two objects that, added to a strange object discovered in 2018, constitute a new class…
SpaceX Reaches for Milestone in Spaceflight – A Private Company Launches Astronauts Into Orbit at Low Cost
Today (May 27, 2020), two American astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, are planning to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on a…
NASA Astronaut Robert Behnken Ready for Today’s Historic SpaceX Crew Dragon Liftoff
The Demo-2 flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with Behnken and Douglas Hurley marks the first launch of American astronauts on an American-made rocket from American…
Landmark NASA SpaceX Commercial Crew Test Flight Coverage Schedule
Grammy Award Winner Kelly Clarkson to Perform National Anthem NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 test…
Gaia Satellite Scans the Sky to Measure Positions and Motions of 1.7 Billion Stars [Video]
Launched in 2013, the Gaia satellite has been scanning the sky to measure the positions, distances and motions of more than one billion stars in…
NASA’s Mars Orbiter Maps Electric Currents Around the Red Planet – Fundamental to Atmospheric Loss
Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric…
Massive, Never-Before-Seen Star System Puzzles Scientists
Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced the second detection of a gravitational-wave signal from the collision of two neutron stars. The event,…
Galactic Crash With Sagittarius May Have Triggered the Formation of Our Solar System
The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our…
Astronomers Look Back 11 Billion Years and See Unusual “Cosmic Ring of Fire”
Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in the universe form. Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy —…
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Prepares for Restart After Unexpected Shutdown
Before COVID-19 hit U.S., project was on track to begin its 3D map of the universe this summer. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), installed…
NASA Astronauts Rehearse for SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Day
Yesterday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley participated in a countdown dress rehearsal of the launch day…
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Cleared to Proceed Toward May 27 Launch
The Flight Readiness Review has concluded, and NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is cleared to proceed toward liftoff on the first crewed flight of the agency’s…
Student Clears Up “Massive” Black Hole Confusion
Black holes are among the most enigmatic objects in our universe. These mysterious celestial bodies do not emit any light of their own and are…
Trials by Fire, Ice, Light and Sound: NASA’s New Mars Rover Perseveres
The agency’s new Mars rover is put through a series of tests in vacuum chambers, acoustic chambers and more to get ready for the Red…
NASA and SpaceX are ‘GO’ to Proceed for Launch of First Astronauts to Space Station from U.S. Since 2011
A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International…