Watch Artemis 2 race back to Earth in this telescope livestream tonight
A Virtual Telescope Project livestream will track NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft as it races back toward Earth. Here’s how to watch it live.
Heather Pringle on the upcoming Space Symposium and future international collaboration in space
In this episode of the Space Minds podcast, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss interviews Heather Pringle, a retired Major General of the US Air Force who is now the CEO of the…
China conducts pair of Long March launches for Thousand Sails and Guowang megaconstellations
China carried out separate Long March 8 and Long March 6A launches this week, adding new batches of satellites to the country’s megaconstellation projects. The post China conducts pair of…
A new kind of arsenal: commercial satellites
he Pentagon is no longer asking whether commercial space will matter in future conflicts. It is building a strategy around the assumption that it will. The post A new kind…
Could We Actually Terraform Mars? A New Scientific Roadmap Lays Out the Blueprint—And the Risks
Reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the Red Planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s, when Carl Sagan first…
What returning to lunar space means for human health
Preparing to send astronauts back to the moon is no small feat. Spaceflight exposes the body to both known and unknown risks, some of which are subtle, cumulative, and difficult…
A Volcanic Medley Near Mammoth Lakes
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Volcanic Medley Near Mammoth… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth…
Webb’s Picture of the Month Features Two Planet-Forming Disks and a Possible Planet
Two images of protoplanetary disks side-by-side. The left image shows a dark horizontal band covering the star, with broad, colorful, conical outflows above and below it, and a narrow jet…
A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator
A Mercury lander mission would create opportunities to sample unique geological features. However, extreme temperature fluctuations on Mercury’s surface pose challenges for exploration on the planetary surface. In a narrow…
Improved thresholds and SSA accuracy can reduce most satellite collision risk
Improving the accuracy of space situational awareness data and using tighter thresholds for potential conjunctions can help retire most satellite collision risk in LEO, a new study concludes. The post…