Spacewalking With Scott Wray, Artemis EVA Training Lead
6 Min Read Spacewalking With Scott Wray, Artemis EVA Training Lead Scott Wray conducts an underwater test of NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) spacesuit in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory…
Fire’s Footprint on Santa Rosa Island
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fire’s Footprint on Santa… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human…
France to fly two astronauts on Vast missions
Commercial space station developer Vast has reached an agreement with the French government to fly two French astronauts on its missions, including the first flight to its Haven-1 space station.…
NASA Awards Modification Contract for Reduced Gravity Test Aircraft
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA NASA selected Denmar Technical Services of Nevada to provide aircraft modifications, maintenance, and testing services to the Human…
Ceres’ Surface Is Much More Complex Than Previously Thought
The dwarf planet Ceres has a surface that seems to get more perplexing with each new study. A recent paper presented at EGU26 in Vienna only adds to its mystery.
NASA Invites Media to See Roman Space Telescope Arrive at Kennedy
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands complete in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. With its deep, sweeping views of the…
How do you study an invisible exoplanet? Astronomers discover planetary ‘fingerprints’ in the rings around stars
How do you weigh a planet you can’t see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves “reading between the rings,” the bright beautiful structures exoplanets create.
Are the JWST’s Early Overrmassive Black Holes Just Normal-Range Outliers?
The JWST found an abundance of overmassive black holes at high redshifts, pushing the limits of black hole (BH) science in the early Universe. Results have claimed that these BHs…
Shockwaves from dying stars may sculpt ‘cosmic wagon wheel’ stellar nurseries, simulations reveal
3D simulations reveal how shockwaves from stellar explosions and winds may carve hub-and-spoke structures in molecular clouds, shaping star formation in the Milky Way.
Astrobiology’s Looming Statistical Crisis
Multi-billion dollar space telescope programs aren’t only feats of aerospace engineering. They also feature “lies, damn lies, and statistics”. Or at least statistics. They definitely feature those, as does all…