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Space station astronauts finish preps for next pair of new solar arrays
Astronaut Koichi Wakata, in foreground at right, works on the space station’s truss during a spacewalk Thursday. Astronaut Nicole Mann is visible in the background at left. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now
Continuing work left over from a spacewalk last month, astronauts Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata headed outside the International Space Station Thursday to finish installing a mounting bracket for new solar arrays due to arrive at the complex on a SpaceX resupply mission in June.
With moon crews to assign, Joe Acaba named NASA's new chief astronaut
As NASA nears selecting its first crew to fly to the moon in more than 50 years, the agency has a new leader for its astronaut corps, Joe Acaba, who has flown into space on three missions.
Artemis 1 moon rocket looks ready for astronaut missions, NASA says
NASA's Space Launch System megarocket aced its first-ever liftoff late last year and appears ready to take the next big step — launching astronauts.
The Historic Discussion of Ptolemy’s Star Catalog
From the time of its writing in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemy’s Almagest stood at the forefront of mathematical astronomy for nearly 1,500 years. This work included a catalog of 1,025 stars, listing their coordinates (in ecliptic longitude and latitude) and brightnesses. While astronomers within a few centuries realized that the models for the sun, moon, and planets all had issues (which we today recognize as being a result of them being incorrect, geocentric models relying on circles and epicycles instead of a heliocentric model with elliptical orbits), the catalog of stars was generally believed to be correct.
Lucy Mission Has a New Asteroid to Fly By
NASA’s Lucy mission now has a new first target of opportunity, a main-belt asteroid it will visit this November.
New satellite to police carbon dioxide emitters from space
The first-ever satellite designed to detect major emitters of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is set to launch to space this year.
The First Stars May Have Weighed More Than 100,000 Suns
The universe was simply different when it was younger. Recently astronomers have discovered that complex physics in the young cosmos may have led to the development of supermassive stars, each one weighing up to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun.
Drag Sail Success! This Satellite Won't Turn Into Space Junk
The European Space Agency successfully tested a solar-sail-type device to speed up the deorbit time for a used cubesat carrier in Earth orbit. The so-called breaking sail, the Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System (ADEO) was deployed from an ION satellite carrier in late December 2022. Engineers estimate the sail will reduce the time it takes for the carrier to reenter Earth’s atmosphere from 4-5 years to approximately 15 months.
Saturn's moon Mimas may be a 'stealth' ocean world
The icy Saturn moon Mimas may have a geologically young internal ocean surrounded by a thinning ice shell, new research suggests.
Save $127 on the Celestron NexStar 5SE computerized telescope
You can now get a huge $127 off the sophisticated Celestron NexStar 5SE computerized telescope when you get it on Amazon.
Holes in sun's atmosphere can help predict space weather on Earth
Magnetic properties of coronal holes in the sun's atmosphere can help forecast the severity of geomagnetic storms that hit Earth.
Gigantic 'alien' comet spotted heading straight for the sun
Scientists think it may have come from another solar system.
Good News! Webb is Fully Operational Again
The James Webb Space Telescope is back to full science operations. One of the telescope’s instruments, the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) had been offline since January 15 due to a communications error. But engineers worked through the problem and were able to return the instrument to full operations.
Xenomorphs hatch from the deep freeze in Marvel’s new 'Alien' comic series
Marvel Comics has released a first fearful look at a new "Alien" comic coming this spring.
Europe won't send astronauts to China's Tiangong space station after all: report
At the moment, the European Space Agency doesn't have the money or the political "green light" for crewed missions to China's Tiangong space station.
The James Webb Space Telescope gets its own micrometeoroid forecast — here's how
Even as the James Webb Space Telescope is allowing astronomers to see inside vast, distant galaxies, it's also studying some tiny, nearby objects, albeit inadvertently.
Watch 2 astronauts perform 2nd spacewalk of 2023 on Thursday morning
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan's Koichi Wakata are scheduled to make the second spacewalk of 2023 on Thursday morning (Feb. 2), and you can watch it live.
Watch live: SpaceX set to launch 53 more Starlink internet satellites
Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-3 mission at 2:43 a.m. EST (0743 GMT) on Feb. 2 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Follow us on Twitter.
Soon Every Spacecraft can Navigate the Solar System Autonomously Using Pulsars
If you want to know where you are in space, you’d better bring along a map. But it’s a little more complicated than riding shotgun on a family road trip.
