NASA selects industry proposals to advance technologies for Habitable Worlds Observatory
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2024
NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency's Habitable Worlds Observatory mission concept, which could be the first space telescope designed to...
The threat of an asteroid colliding with Earth is a real and potentially catastrophic danger. While the probability of a large asteroid impact in our lifetimes is low, the consequences could be devastating,...
Source: NASA
In the annals of aerospace engineering, few machines are as iconic or impressive as the Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine. Five of these colossal powerplants propelled the first stage of each Saturn V rocket,...
The mini-halos of dark matter scattered throughout the Cosmos could function as highly sensitive probes of primordial magnetic fields. This is what emerges from a theoretical study conducted by SISSA and published in Physical...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
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Happy Birthday to astronaut Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space, seen here aboard the Shuttle Endeavour, September 1992. She was...
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station have completed an abbreviated four hour, forty three minute-long spacewalk to replace a faulty power unit on...
Musankwa sanyatiensis leg bones as they were discovered in the ground on Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Credit: Paul BarrettA new sauropodomorph dinosaur from...
University of Warwick astronomers are warning that orbital debris posing a threat to operational satellites is not being monitored closely enough, as they publish...
New Study Suggests Dark Matter May Be Self-Interacting
by Erica Marchand
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2024
Recent research conducted by Riccardo Valdarnini of SISSA's Astrophysics and...
After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the center of galaxy NGC...