NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) represents a major leap forward in how spacecraft send…
Browsing: Space
Space refers to the vast, seemingly infinite expanse beyond Earth’s atmosphere where planets, stars, galaxies, and cosmic phenomena exist. It is a realm defined by extreme conditions—near vacuum, intense radiation, and temperatures ranging from blistering heat to freezing cold. Space exploration has revealed a universe rich with complexity, from black holes and exoplanets to the cosmic microwave background that offers clues to the Big Bang. For scientists, space is both a frontier and a laboratory, offering insights into fundamental physics, the origins of the universe, and the potential for life beyond Earth. It continues to inspire curiosity, innovation, and a deeper sense of our place in the cosmos.
An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet, GJ 367 b, whose surface…
NASA has awarded the Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) to Northrop Grumman of Brigham…
The December 5 launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket carrying…
Astrophysicists on BU’s NASA-funded SHIELD team reach another milestone on their quest to understand the…
Hubble captured NGC 6891’s layered shells and glowing gas, evidence of repeated stellar eruptions thousands…
Gravitational-wave observatories are searching for boson clouds around black holes, a potential dark matter source.…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree selfie using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or…
A team of NASA and Northrop Grumman engineers fired a 2-foot-diameter (0.6-meter-diameter), subscale solid rocket…
ESA and TalTech are studying iron pyrite microcrystals as scalable solar cells, potentially harvestable from…
At 1:58 a.m. CST, 2:58 a.m. EST this morning (December 3, 2021), the Russian Progress…
https://youtu.be/Tor54fLijRE What’s Up for December? Your early evening highlights, a chance to catch a comet,…
Over the years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken hundreds of images of different kinds…
On Saturday, December 4, 2021, some people in the Southern Hemisphere will have the chance…
Team Studied Thermal Inertia To Understand How Rock Layers Were Formed As part of a…
NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron concluded the first Expedition 66 spacewalk at 12:47 p.m. EST, after…
Leo I, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, contains a black hole nearly as…
Researchers have predicted the new class of star’s existence for 50 years but until now,…