NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts completed the first commercial crew port relocation on the International Space Station on Monday (April 5), while moving the Crew Dragon Spaceship in preparation for the arrival of …
Read More »Perseverance rover’s zoom camera is checked on the Red Planet – Spaceflight Now
The Mastcam-Z instrument on the Perseverance rover took this photograph of the Martian horizon on Tuesday, March 30. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS Scientists have confirmed that the first …
Read More »NASA is going to crash a probe into an asteroid for a very good reason
Image: POT Normally, NASA likes its probes to make contact with other objects in space in a very controlled way. You want to land a rover on mars, no release a rover …
Read More »Piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket found at Washington Field
The Falcon 9 rocket part. Image: Grant County Sheriff’s Office The failed ofThe orbit of a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage late last month produced a spectacular light show over the Pacific …
Read More »Fauci responds to criticism from the right and says the attacks against him are “strange” | United States politics
Anthony Fauci has described the attacks on him by Republicans as “strange,” after a barrage of criticism from leading GOP figures. The infectious disease expert who has led the United States’ effort …
Read More »For 2 million years, humans ate meat and little else, study finds
Israeli researchers studying Stone Age human nutrition say the species spent about 2 million years as hypercarnivorous “apex predators” feeding primarily on meat from large animals. The Tel Aviv University study, in …
Read More »Musk says methane leak doomed Starship’s latest test flight – Spaceflight Now
A file photo of the Starship SN8 prototype, which flew last year, with three Raptor engines. Credit: Elon Musk / SpaceX SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Monday that a “relatively small” methane …
Read More »Saturn’s rings behave like a ‘mini solar system’
The seven icy rings of Saturn each rotate at their own speed, behaving like a “mini solar system”. Planetary scientist James O’Donoghue made a wonderfully simple animation to show how it works. …
Read More »Four astronauts circled a Dragon on Monday morning
Early Monday, a Crew Dragon was docked in the “forward” port of the Harmony module. NASA TV Four members of the crew were inside the Dragon spaceship. Resilience. NASA TV Soon, they …
Read More »Distant stars spiraling toward a collision help unravel the mysterious forces that hold subatomic particles together
The physics of massive nuclei can be studied by measuring the “note” at which the tidal resonance between fused neutron stars causes the solid crust of neutron stars to break apart. Credit: …
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