We’ve covered plenty of the Parker Solar Probe’s exploits here at UT, but it keeps breaking new records almost every month. Now, with its newest flyby, it has gotten closer to the Sun than ever before, breaking its own record from previous flybys.
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Private space stations are coming. Will they be better than their predecessors?
A new era of space stations is about to kick off. NASA has announced three commercial space station proposals for development, joining an earlier proposal by Axiom Space.
Europe's Mars orbiter relays data from Chinese rover back to Earth
The European Space Agency's Mars Express collected data from China's Zhurong Mars rover and successfully sent it to Earth following a series of experimental communications tests.
Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin aims to help the next generation reach for the stars
Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin is working to help the next generation reach the same lofty heights that he did.
'I want to go back!' Michael Strahan can't get enough of space after Blue Origin launch
The former NFL star and "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan launched into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket Saturday (Dec. 11)
Blue Origin launches necklace honoring 'Star Trek' actor Leonard Nimoy into space on New Shepard
The sterling silver necklace, bearing the LLAP symbol, went aloft on a Blue Origin flight with the personal items of Laura Shepard Churchley.
Michael Strahan, Alan Shepard’s daughter and four others rocket into space
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Blue Origin launches Michael Strahan and crew of 5 on record-setting suborbital spaceflight
Blue Origin successfully launched its first six-person crew into space on Saturday (Dec. 11), and in the process, set six new space records.
How changing levels of iron shaped the evolution of life on Earth — and why alien hunters should take note
During the development of life on planet Earth over billions of years, iron deficiency may have stimulated evolution.
Bounteous harvest in Antarctic greenhouse may bode well for Mars colonization
A greenhouse in Antarctica testing technologies that could one day grow food for Mars colonists has produced an abundant harvest of greens, vegetables and spices.
SpaceX's all-civilian Inspiration4 astronaut crew flew a meteorite back to space (briefly)
Astronaut Sian Proctor says it's the first time humans deliberately let a space rock revisit its home.
Michael Strahan's Blue Origin Launch on New Shepard: Live updates
On Dec. 11, 2021, Blue Origin will launch former NFL football player and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan to space alongside five crewmates on the New Shepard rocket's NS-19 mission. Liftoff is set for 9:45 a.m. EST (1445 GMT) with a live webcast to begin at 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 GMT). Strahan will launch on a suborbital flight on New Shepard with Laura Shepard Churchley, eldest daughter of famed NASA astronaut Alan Shepard, and paying passengers Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick, Lane Bess and Cameron Bess.
SpaceX launches NASA mission to study dead stars
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography
SpaceX launched a refrigerator-sized NASA X-ray observatory from Kennedy Space Center into an unusual orbit hugging the equator Thursday, beginning a $214 million mission to study black holes and super-compact neutron stars.
Michael Strahan taking football to space on Blue Origin flight Saturday
Michael Strahan, who played in the NFL from 1993 to 2007, will tote a football on his suborbital jaunt with Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin on Saturday.
FAA ending commercial astronaut wings program as more people reach space
The 17-year-old program met its goal in raising awareness and the names will still be listed online, the agency said.
Astronaut Alan Shepard's daughter says she's excited to follow him to space
Laura Shepard Churchley is set to launch on a Blue Origin flight Saturday (Dec. 11).
The Milky Way's supermassive black hole burps 'mini-jets,' scientists find
The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy periodically hiccups, burping a "mini-jet" out into space.
The Constellation Fornax
Welcome to another edition of Constellation Friday! Today, in honor of the late and great Tammy Plotner, we take a look at “the Furnace” – the Fornax constellation. Enjoy!
Galaxies Have Been Found With no Dark Matter at all
One of the greatest cosmological mysteries facing astrophysicists today is Dark Matter. Since the 1960s, scientists have postulated that this invisible mass accounts for most of the matter in the Universe. While there are still many unresolved questions about it – i.e., What is it composed of? How do we detect it? What evidence is there beyond indirect detection? – we have managed to learn a few things about it over time.
Webb telescope fueled for flight, ready for lifting atop launcher
The James Webb Space Telescope is loaded with toxic propellants by technicians wearing protective self-contained suits. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/P. Piron
A crane at the Guiana Space Center in South America will hoist the nearly $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope more than 15 stories above the floor of a rocket assembly hangar this weekend to position the observatory on top of its Ariane 5 launcher for blastoff later this month.
