Parker Solar Probe Was Blasted by Coronal Mass Ejections 28 Times...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) was launched on August 12, 2018, with the goal of becoming the first spacecraft to touch the Sun while teaching us more about our host star than any spacecraft or solar instrument in human history. Now, a recent study submitted to The Astrophysical Journal discusses the incredible data that PSP…
Ice is Starting to Cloud Euclid’s Optics
On July 1st, 2023, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Euclid Observatory, a mission that will spend the next six years investigating the composition and evolution of the Universe. In particular, Euclid will observe how the Universe has expanded over the past 10 billion years to test theories about Dark Energy. While fine-tuning and…
Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and...
A commercial spacecraft touched down on the moon for the first time last month, in a NASA-sponsored mission by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines.Both achievements were major leaps forward for NASA's new moon program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface using Starship. In fact, NASA's biggest plans — to replace the aging space…
Northrup Grumman is Studying How to Build a Railway on the...
Roughly two years and six months from now, as part of NASA’s Artemis III mission, astronauts will set foot on the lunar surface for the first time in over fifty years. Beyond this mission, NASA will deploy the elements of the Lunar Gateway, the Artemis Base Camp, and other infrastructure that will allow for a…
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ cosmic explosion set to light up the night sky, NASA...
A rare cosmic explosion that NASA describes as a "once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity" is expected to take place by September, the space agency has said.The "nova" explosion will be visible to the naked eye despite occurring 3,000 lightyears away from Earth.It will occur when the star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) explodes after a thermonuclear…
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin passes key pee test in its $172M...
NASA awarded Blue Origin $172 million to develop a space station for both astronauts and tourists.The space station, called Orbital Reef, will need to be able to support human life. Recently, Blue Origin passed four milestones in helping prove Orbital Reef is well on its way. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a…
A Soyuz crew launch suffers a rare abort seconds before liftoff
Enlarge / Within minutes of Thursday's scrub, technicians were on the pad in Baikonur with the fully fueled rocket.NASA TV On Thursday a crew of three people was due to launch on a Soyuz rocket, bound for the International Space Station. However, the launch scrubbed at about 20 seconds before the planned liftoff time, just…
SpaceX’s workhorse launch pad now has the accoutrements for astronauts
Upgrades at SpaceX's most-used launch pad in Florida will get a trial run Thursday with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo ship heading for the International Space Station. SpaceX's Cargo Dragon spacecraft is set for launch at 4:55 pm EDT (20:55 UTC) Thursday from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at…
All aboard the moon train: DARPA is trying to figure out...
Astronauts may one day be able to hop on a train to travel the moon's surface.DARPA, the US Defense Department's secretive research agency, has been tasked with figuring out how to support astronauts who could soon be living on the moon for extended periods.The plans are highly hypothetical — there are currently no permanent structures…
Thomas Stafford, who flew to the Moon and docked with Soyuz,...
Enlarge / Apollo commander Tom Stafford (left) with Soyuz commander Alexei Leonov during the Apollo-Soyuz mission in July 1975. Former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford, a three-star Air Force general known for a historic handshake in space with a Soviet cosmonaut nearly 50 years ago, died Monday in Florida. He was 93. Stafford was perhaps the…
