NASA outlines impacts of VIPER on CLPS lunar lander program
NASA estimated it would have to cancel up to four commercial lunar lander missions and delay up to four more to fly a rover mission the agency announced in July…
Save over 20% on this Lego Star Wars: Boarding the Tantive IV set
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An Insanely High-Resolution Image of the Sun
Our local star the Sun has been the source of many studies from ground based telescopes to space based observatories. The ESA Solar Orbiter has been approaching the Sun, capturing…
Watch Jude Law describe his reverence for ‘Star Wars’ in new ‘Skeleton Crew’ featurette (video)
A new “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” teaser and featurette were just released by Disney+’
SpaceX gets conditional approval for direct-to-smartphone service
The Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX conditional approval Nov. 26 to use Starlink broadband satellites to keep T-Mobile smartphone users connected in cellular dead zones across the United States. The…
Magnetic tornadoes on Jupiter are spawning Earth-size storms
Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter’s ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar anticyclones, each the size of our Earth.
Slingshot selected to design user experience for U.S. space traffic system
The company won a $5.3 million contract with options for four additional years, bringing the potential total value to $13.3 million The post Slingshot selected to design user experience for…
Scientists Reveal a New Way to Study Near-Earth Asteroids
On November 18th, 2022, shortly before midnight, the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona and other observatories worldwide detected a small object (now designated 2022 WJ1) heading toward Earth. For…
The Hubble and FU Orionis: a New Look at an Old Mystery
In 1936 astronomers watched as FU Orionis, a dim star in the Orion constellation, brightened dramatically. The star’s brightness increased by a factor of 100 in a matter of months.…
NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next-Generation Space Weather Sensors
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory of Laurel, Maryland, to build the Suprathermal Ion Sensors for the…