Vast wins ISS private astronaut mission
NASA has selected commercial space station company Vast to fly a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in 2027. The post Vast wins ISS private astronaut mission appeared…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Launches to International Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft atop carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev…
How Wood Records the Sun’s Most Violent Outbursts
Ancient trees hold secrets about the most violent storms our Sun has ever unleashed, catastrophic bursts of radiation that dwarf anything modern civilisation has experienced. Scientists have discovered radioactive carbon…
Sunlight Extracts Oxygen From Regolith Using Solar Chemistry
A solar concentrator is tested as part of the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project, which aims to produce oxygen from simulated lunar regolith for use at the Moon’s south pole.…
Stonebreen’s Beating Heart
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Sediment Cores Track Timing Hiccups in Earth’s Magnetic Field Flips
Every so often (in geologic time) Earth’s magnetic field does a flip. The north and south magnetic poles gradually trade places in a phenomenon called a geomagnetic reversal. Scientists long…
‘Project Hail Mary,’ ‘Disclosure Day,’ & ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ got new trailers at Super Bowl LX: Watch them all here (video)
Take a time out for upcoming interstellar voyages, alien invasions, and animated galactic adventures
Space startups find more paths to liquidity as investors warm to maturing sector
Young space companies are gaining more ways to cash out or raise larger pools of capital as the industry matures and investors grow more comfortable with the sector. The post…
Non-biologic Processes Can’t Fully Explain the Organics Curiosity Found on Mars, Providing More Potential Evidence of Life.
In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity…
Watch SpaceX launch Crew-12 astronaut mission to the International Space Station early on Feb. 13
SpaceX will launch the latest batch of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning (Feb. 13), and you can watch the action live.