A recent YouTube video made by YouTube account, Hazegrayart, combines awesome computer animation, great music, and crisp archived audio recordings to show how NASA’s future Lunar Gateway will function for the upcoming Artemis missions. The archived audio recordings encompass only about a third of the short four and a half minutes of video, with almost the entire length being filled with a gorgeous and relaxing soundtrack as the viewer is left fixated watching a slow and methodical ballet of spaceships come together at Gateway.
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US will push other nations to abandon destructive anti-satellite tests, VP Harris says
The United States will soon ask other nations to follow its lead and abandon destructive, debris-spawning anti-satellite testing, Vice President Kamala Harris said.
Just 2,000 Years Ago, Betelgeuse Was Yellow, Not Red
Compared to the lifespan of stars, human lives are pretty short. Stars such as Betelgeuse (in Orion) live for millions of years. Others exist for billions of years. We (if we’re lucky) get maybe 100 years (more or less). So, to us, stars don’t appear to change much over our lifetimes, unless they blow up as supernovae. But, what about over the course of 20 or 30 successive lifetimes?
The art of 'Love, Death + Robots' comes alive in new book (exclusive)
Power up exclusive images and comments for Titan Books' "The Art of Love, Death + Robots"
DARPA developing small vertical-takeoff aircraft for military use
DARPA's ANCILLARY program aims to develop a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that can operate in areas without preexisting air bases or other infrastructure.
Ingenuity helicopter heads toward ancient river delta on 31st Martian flight
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just flew for the 31st time on Mars, acing a short hop that took it closer to an ancient Red Planet river delta.
Insanely High-Resolution Images of the Sun Show its Chromosphere in Vivid Detail
New images of the Sun’s chromosphere – the lower region of the solar atmosphere — have been released, and to say they are ‘stellar’ is an understatement. Simply, they are stunning. The high-resolution images were taken with the now-fully-operational Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai‘i. Scientists say the new observatory — with its large 4-meter (13-ft) primary mirror — will enable a new era of solar science, and provide a leap forward in understanding the Sun and its impacts on our planet.
A Planet has Been Found Orbiting Two Stars
To date, 5,084 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,811 planetary systems, with another 8,912 candidates awaiting confirmation. These discoveries have provided astronomers with a detailed sampling of the types of planets that exist in our Universe, ranging from gas giants several times the size of Jupiter to smaller, rocky bodies like Earth. So far, the vast majority of these have been discovered using indirect methods – like the Transit Method (Transit Photometry) and the Radial Velocity Method (Doppler Spectroscopy) – while the remainder has been detected using various other means.
US satellites in low Earth orbit to be deorbited in 5 years: report
The FCC has a new rule pending in its ongoing fight against space debris.
VP Harris congratulates astronauts, promotes teamwork between Earth and space
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today (Sept. 9) to with Expedition 67 astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Harris will also chair a key space meeting today.
Encalife SVBONY 501P 70 telescope review
This basic portable refractor telescope is suitable for lunar observations and comes complete with a backpack for easy transportation.
NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover stars in heartfelt new documentary
New documentary 'Good Night Oppy' explores the intrepid Opportunity Mars rover's 15-year odyssey on the Red Planet.
Space station experiment suggests Mars rovers will need to dig deep to find life
The search for signs of life, past or present, on Mars may have hit a stumbling blocks as new results show how the rovers will be unable to detect biomarkers on the surface.
BlueWalker-3 Satellite Launches This Weekend, May Be Bright
A new satellite launching this weekend BlueWalker-3 could be conspicuously bright once it’s unfurled in orbit.
Babylon 5 to return with a secret project featuring original cast
The 1990s science-fiction series, which pioneered multi-season arc storytelling, is about to get a revival.
We Still Have no Idea if it's Safe to be Pregnant in Space
Can humans reproduce in space? The short answer is that we don’t know. The long answer is maybe, but there are significant barriers to overcome to make zero-gravity pregnancy safe, and research into the subject is only just beginning.
Webb Captures an Exoplanet, a Brown Dwarf — and a Giant Tarantula
Over the past week, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured both its first exoplanet and its first brown dwarf as well as photographed the firestorm of star formation in […]
VP Kamala Harris to lead National Space Council meeting today (Sept. 9)
Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her second National Space Council meeting Friday (Sept. 9) at 2:20 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT).
Interstellar objects might have crashed on to the moon
Hunting for interstellar objects in our solar system may have a new venue: the moon. Finding out if they crashed there likely will require astronauts to go hunting.
Hubble Space Telescope sees spiral of star formation in neighboring galaxy
The early universe experienced a rapid "baby boom" of star formation. Now clues collected from a stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud could hint at the conditions that caused it.