U.S. Space Force faces growing demands in Indo-Pacific amid calls for expansion
For U.S. commanders, a key concern is how to defend critical space infrastructure from adversaries’ anti-satellite weapons The post U.S. Space Force faces growing demands in Indo-Pacific amid calls for…
Scientists have dated the moon’s oldest, and largest, impact site
The moon has been bombarded by asteroids and comets for more than 4.32 billion years.
I Am Artemis: Casey Wolfe
Casey Wolfe is developing and producing the next generation payload adapter for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) super-heavy lift rocket. The adapter is made with some of the world’s most…
Meloë Kacenelenbogen Eyes the Future of Air Quality, Climate Research
A mentor of research scientist Meloë Kacenelenbogen once shared a sentiment from French author André Gide: “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of…
China’s ‘Thousand Sails’ Joins Starlink as the Latest Mega-Satellite Constellation in Orbit
With ‘Thousand Sails,’ China joins the race to fill up Low Earth Orbit with mega-satellite constellations. It’s getting crowded up there in Low Earth orbit (LEO). By now, flocks of…
How does the Cosmic Web connect Taylor Swift and the last line of your ‘celestial address?’
A map of gravity wells or “basins of attraction” in the local universe may resemble a Taylor Swift outfit, but they define the largest structure in the universe, the last…
Sols 4338-4340: Decisions, Decisions
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars…
Life on Earth Needed “Unmelted Asteroids”
The word “volatile” is commonly used in the space exploration community, but it has a different meaning than when used otherwise. In space exploration, volatiles are defined as the six…
NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory
2 min read NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next…
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that’s home to countless space objects
The cloud is basically a gigantic reservoir that may hold billions of icy celestial bodies. Two of those bodies will pass by Earth in the days leading up to Halloween.