NASA’s Houston base offers one of the many iconic aspects of Texas’ identity, but in recent years the government’s aerospace agency has taken a step back and encouraged private companies to further fuel space exploration. One of the winners of this new approach from NASA was SpaceX. So far, the company, led by technology billionaire … Read more
Astronomers have had a big surprise with the discovery that a star known as WL 20S, which has been studied extensively since the 1970s, is actually not one but a pair of stars. The discovery of the surprising twin was made with the James Webb Space Telescope during a survey of a group of young … Read more
We could be entering a renaissance in human spaceflight research, as record numbers of private citizens go into space—and as scientists improve the techniques for collecting data on these intrepid test subjects. A sign that the renaissance is imminent emerged earlier this week, when the journal Nature published a series of articles detailing the physical … Read more
Corner down icon An icon in the shape of a corner pointing downwards. Jeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion people live in giant space stations floating through the solar system. AP/Ted S. Warren Jeff Bezos dreams of a trillion people living on giant space stations throughout the solar system. This is how … Read more
Travel to space should be an eye-opening experienceone that gives you a new perspective humanity and its place in the cosmos. But while you might think an experience like this would make someone infinitely wiser, here’s a new report discovered that space travel could do that make you a little dumber. 2024 BMW X5 50e … Read more
How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN collides with carbon nuclei (small gray spheres). This creates a shower of various elementary particles, including a large number of neutral pions (orange spheres). As the unstable neutral pions decay, they emit two high-energy gamma rays (yellow squiggly arrows). … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN collides with carbon nuclei (small gray spheres). This creates a shower of various elementary particles, including a large number of neutral pions (orange spheres). … Read more
HELSINKI – China’s experimental reusable spaceplane has used a smaller spacecraft to test close-range operations and possibly even image the object. China launched its spaceplane for the third time via a Long March 2F rocket on December 14, 2023. The spacecraft launched an object into orbit, first cataloged by the US Space Force space domain … Read more
SpaceX officials hope to soon launch and land massive 450-foot Starship-Super Heavy rockets up to 44 times a year at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. But Susan Palma, a 40-year-old Titusville resident, fears that further development at the Cape risks further disrupting the natural water flow and salinity of the endangered Indian River Lagoon. She attended … Read more
Astronomers have detected a peculiar radio signal originating from deep space that eludes current scientific knowledge. The signal, designated ASKAP J1935+2148, repeats every 53.8 minutes, making it the longest period ever recorded for such a phenomenon. Published in the magazine Nature AstronomyThe discovery, made using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope, has … Read more