UK startup Applied Atomics to enter US market with focus on military space mobility
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These record-breaking black hole winds could create a category 79 hurricane on Earth
Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar powered by a feeding supermassive black hole blasting out winds at record-breaking speeds for such an outflow seen in ultraviolet light, traveling at 30%…
Flight Dynamics Research Facility Characteristics
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) HomeCharacteristics The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for…
Thruster breakthrough? New 2-in-1 propulsion system is about to get an in-space test
A new propulsion system feeds the same “monopropellant” fuel into electrical and chemical thrusters, potentially saving on mass and complications for future missions to Mars.
NASA names crew for Artemis 3 mission to test lunar landers
NASA has named the astronauts who will fly the next Artemis mission, a test flight in low Earth orbit where Orion will attempt to dock with two lunar lander prototypes.…
Artemis III Crew Announced
NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together on June 9, 2026. The…
Why Can’t the Universe Be Cyclic? Part 4: When a Good Idea Meets Bad Data
The ekpyrotic universe is a beautiful idea that runs headlong into the data. From hand-waved singularities and assumed dark energy to the killer blow from Planck and WMAP measurements of…
Orbiting Stars Give Clues to a Quiescent Black Hole’s Mass
How do you measure the mass of a dormant black hole in the early Universe? That’s a question astronomers at University College London (UCL) and Carnegie scientists wanted to answer…
Do galaxies have a ‘kill switch’ that makes them stop growing?
Above a certain threshold, galaxies stop growing , no matter how much raw material they have on hand. The question is: what flips the switch?
NASA reveals Artemis 3 astronaut crew
NASA named the astronauts who will launch on its Artemis 3 mission next year to test docking procedures in Earth orbit ahead of a planned moon landing in 2028.