China is gearing up to send the third crew to its new Tiangong space station, with launch set for late Saturday (June 4) U.S. Eastern time.
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Blue Origin targets June 4 for next space tourist mission after delay
NS-21, the next mission of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle, is now targeted for Saturday (June 4) — about two weeks later than originally planned.
Mysterious pulsar spins too slowly with 7 different pulse patterns
A single flash from the sky pointed the way to a bizarre star that rotates very slowly, making it difficult to figure out if it's a pulsar or some other stellar object.
ESA's Juice Mission is Fully Integrated and Ready for Testing. Soon it'll fly to Space on a Mission to Jupiter's Moons
Now less than one year until the projected launch date, ESA’s JUICE mission is in the final phases of development. The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) is now fully built with all ten instruments integrated into the spacecraft bus. Next comes all-up testing in a full flight configuration.
Civilizations Don’t Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a red giant. It’ll expand and transform into a glowering, malevolent ball and consume and destroy Mercury, Venus, Earth, and probably Mars. Can humanity survive the Sun’s red giant phase? Extraterrestrial Civilizations (ETCs) may have already faced this existential threat.
New tau Herculid meteor shower drops bright fireballs, but no 'meteor storm,' for stargazers (photos)
"Shooting stars" from a new meteor shower lit up the night sky in a dazzling display, even if it wasn't a "meteor storm" some stargazers hoped for.
FAA delays environmental review of SpaceX's Starship 2 more weeks, to June 13
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has delayed the completion of its environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program by another two weeks, to June 13.
Chinese scientists call for plan to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
Microwave jammers, mini-satellites and space lasers could all be used to scuttle Starlink .
CAPSTONE: A pathfinding moon cubesat for the Artemis program
The CAPSTONE mission will test the feasibility of an energy-efficient orbit and navigation around the moon in preparation for the Artemis mission.
Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming' had an unlikely observer: a Japanese weather satellite
Japan's Himawari-8 weather satellite serendipitously captured the dramatic changes in brightness of Orion's red supergiant star in 2019-2020.
Shades of Uranus: Scientists know why the planet and Neptune are different hues of blue
The way each planet's atmosphere responds to methane might be responsible for the different hues of Uranus and Neptune.
A 'doorway' on Mars? How we see things in space that aren't there.
A geologist explains what the "doorway" on Mars really is and why it's so tempting to see recognizable shapes on other worlds.
'Obi-Wan Kenobi' episodes one and two reunite Star Wars fans with a beloved character they’ll no longer recognize
One day you’re a Jedi Knight, the next you’re harvesting meat in the middle of the desert and living in a cave with your hairless camel…
'Obi-Wan Kenobi' episode one & two Easter eggs: Callbacks to a more civilized age
You don’t have to be an inquisitor to hunt down all of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’s’ Easter eggs and Star Wars references, but it helps…
Media invitation: new details about our Milky Way in the third Gaia data release
Media representatives are invited to join a virtual press event at 13 June 2022 from 10:00 to 11:00 CEST, to learn more about the new data set to be released by ESA’s Gaia mission.
Meet Denebola, and Catch a Lion by the Tail
Meet Denebola, the tail of Leo, the Lion. This young star is a fast rotater but otherwise not that different from our Sun.
4 big Milky Way mysteries the next Gaia mission data dump may solve
Here are four big scientific questions about the Milky Way that astronomers hope to solve with the upcoming data dump from the European Gaia galaxy-charting mission.
Hubble telescope snaps trippy new view of two swirling galaxies
A peculiar pair of galaxies swirls together in a mesmerizing new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.
A new Kind of Solar Sail Could let us Explore Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System
Solar sailing technology has been a dream of many for decades. The simple elegance of sailing on the light waves of the sun does have a dreamy aspect to it that has captured the imagination of engineers as well as writers. However, the practicalities of the amount of energy received compared to that needed to move useful payloads have brought those dreams back to reality. Now, a team led by Amber Dubill of John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and supported by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program is developing new solar sail architecture that might have already found its killer app – heliophysics.
ESA is Developing Microbe-Killing Coatings to Make Spaceflight Healthier
Humans aren’t the only living things in place onboard the ISS. Bacteria, which has found a way to integrate itself into every biome on Earth, has also found a home in the aseptic microgravity of the space station high above it. Unfortunately, this poses a hazard to both the astronauts that live on the ISS and the station itself. But now, a team of researchers funded by ESA and the Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) think they have a solution – make the surfaces on the ISS antimicrobial.
Spectacular Hubble image captures 'grand spiral' galaxy
The spiral arms of NGC 3631 are bursting with star-forming regions captured in a stunning Hubble Space Telescope image.
