Tag: space science
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Blue Origin pushes back first launch of giant New Glenn rocket
With the mission, called NG-1, billionaire Amazon founder Bezos is taking aim at the only person in the world richer than him: Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX dominates the orbital launch market through its prolific Falcon 9 rocket. Which is important for the commercial sector. , Pentagon and NASA. Bezos, who founded Blue Origin a…
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US astronauts excited about seven-month, eight-day mission
This image from NASA video shows astronauts, from L to R, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, Don Pettit and Suni Williams aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as they meet with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on January 8, 2025. Let’s talk. Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft…
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Big surprise from planet-forming disk around small star
Stars form when dense clumps of interstellar gas and dust collapse under their own gravitational force. When a star emerges at the center of such a cloud, the remaining material forms a swirling disk around it that fuels stellar evolution and often gives birth to planets. The disks around newborn Sun-sized stars contain much more…
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After challenging docking, Boeing Starliner crew arrives at I.S.S.
Starliner is the sixth US-built spacecraft to fly NASA astronauts, followed by the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs in the 1960s and 1970s, the Space Shuttle from 1981 to 2011 and SpaceX's Crew Dragon since 2020. Between 2011 and 2020, the United States relied on Russian Soyuz rockets to get to the ISS. Boeing's program…
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Webb telescope again discovers the most distant galaxy ever seen
The James Webb Space Telescope has set a new record for the most distant known galaxy, an extremely bright star system that formed 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Thursday. Since coming online in 2022, the Webb telescope has ushered in a new era of scientific breakthroughs, looking farther into the distant…
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The Sun's magnetic field may originate close to the solar surface
“If the plasma that makes up the sun were completely static, we know that the sun's magnetic field would decay over time, and pretty soon, there would be no sunspots or other solar activity. However, the plasma in the sun is moving, and that motion is able to regenerate and maintain the sun's magnetic field,”…
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'The danger behind the beauty': More solar storms could be headed our way
Betwi said most countries have improved their power grids, which will prevent long power outages like those that occurred in Sweden in 2003 or Canada in 1989. Still, he suggested that people should have an emergency kit in case there is a power outage for a day or two. Fresh water can also help if…
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Astronomers have finally discovered a rocky planet with an atmosphere
Being so close to its star, any atmosphere should be stripped away by stellar radiation and winds. But dissolved gases in the vast lava ocean covering the planet can keep boiling to refill the atmosphere, Hu said. “The planet may not be habitable because it is so hot that it does not contain liquid water,…
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China launches first probe to collect samples from far side of Moon
Chang'e-6 is the first of three high-wire uncrewed missions to the Moon planned by China this decade. Its successor, Chang'e-7, will search the Moon's south pole for water, while Chang'e-8 will attempt to establish the technical feasibility of building a planned base, known as the International Lunar Research Station , Beijing has said that the…
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The accelerated expansion of the universe may be slowing down
But apparently there was something that was causing the universe to expand at a much faster rate, and this force was named “dark energy.” Recently, it was discovered that the acceleration of the universe accelerated significantly about six billion years after the Big Bang. According to the leading model of the universe called Lambda CDM,…
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Galaxy's black hole is surrounded by strong magnetic field: Astronomer
Nothing can escape their gravitational pull, not even light, making them impossible to observe directly. But with M87* in 2019 and Sagittarius A* in 2022, the EHT captured the halo of light that arises from the flow of matter and gas that the black holes suck in and expel. “By visualizing polarized light from hot…
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Japan's moon lander resurfaces after lunar night
“SLIM managed to survive a night on the lunar surface while maintaining its communications function!” It added that communications were “terminated after a short time, as it was still lunar noon and the temperature of the communications equipment was very high”. But it also says: “Preparations are being made to resume operations once the equipment's…
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Scientists identify neutron star born from supernova seen in 1987
“After following supernovae and searching for compact objects for more than three decades, it is exciting to finally find the missing evidence for a neutron star,” said lead author Claes Fransson, professor of astrophysics at Stockholm University in Sweden, to JWST. Thank you.” According to the study published in Science Journal. “Neutron stars are extremely…
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America returns spacecraft to the moon, this is the first private sector
The remaining merchandise was sent on behalf of Intuitive Machines' private customers, and includes 125 stainless steel Mini Moons created by artist Jeff Koons. The cargo can last for seven days before lunar night falls, rendering Odysseus inactive. NASA paid Intuitive Machines US$118 million to ship its hardware under a new initiative called Commercial Lunar…
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Private American spacecraft flies to the moon
In addition to Astrobotic’s failed effort, two other private initiatives folded: Beresheet, run by an Israeli nonprofit, collapsed in 2019; Whereas Japanese company iSpace also had a “hard landing” last year. Only five nations have succeeded: first the Soviet Union, then the United States, which is still the only country that has even put people…