While landing humans on the moon was indeed historic and the boot-kicked lunar dust has settled, perhaps that achievement had more of an impact on society than we realized.
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An Epic Collaboration Between Hubble and JWST
In 2012, as part of the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) discovered a pair of colliding galaxy clusters (MACS0416) that will eventually combine to form an even bigger cluster. Located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, the MACS0416 cluster contains multiple gravitational lenses that allow astronomers to look back in time and view galaxies as they appeared when the Universe was young. In a new collaboration that symbolizes the passing of the torch, the venerable Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) teamed up to conduct an extremely detailed study of MACS0416.
SpaceX says its 2nd Starship test flight could launch on Nov. 17 (video)
SpaceX says its next Starship launch could occur as early as Nov. 17, pending regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.
If You Account for the Laniakea Supercluster, The Hubble Tension Might Be Even Larger
One of the great unsolved mysteries of cosmology is known as the Hubble tension. It stems from our inability to pin down the precise rate of cosmic expansion. There are several ways to calculate this expansion, from observing distant supernovae to measuring the Doppler shift of maser light near supermassive black holes, and they all give slightly different results. Maybe we don’t fully understand the structure of the Universe, or maybe our view of the heavens is biased given that we are located deep within a galactic supercluster. As a new study shows, the bias problem is even worse than we thought.
SpaceX set to launch 90 payloads to orbit on 'rideshare' mission today
SpaceX is poised to launch its Transporter-9 mission today (Nov. 11), a 'rideshare' flight that will loft 90 payloads to orbit.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 87 — One Lunar Fizz Please
On Episode 87 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss drinking in space with Colleen McLeod Garner.
How to Think About a Four-Dimensional Universe
In Einstein’s famous theory of relativity the concepts of immutable space and time aren’t just put aside, they’re explicitly and emphatically rejected. Space and time are now woven into a coexisting fabric. That is to say, we truly live in a four-dimensional universe. Space and time alone cease to exist; only the union of those dimensions remains.
Volcanic 'devil comet' resprouts its horns after erupting again
The massive volcanic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which grows giant horns when it erupts, has exploded for a third time in five months as it continues to race toward the sun.
The Taurid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here's how to see it.
The Northern Taurid meteor shower peaks overnight on Nov. 11, offering the chance to see fireballs created by debris from Comet 2P/Encke burning up in Earth's atmosphere.
These highly rated lightsabers are at their lowest ever price ahead of Black Friday
We rate these lightsabers as some of the best on the market and now they're at their lowest ever price on Amazon, ahead of Black Friday.
SpaceX to launch 90 payloads on Transporter-9 Falcon 9 mission from Vandenberg
For the fourth time in 2023, SpaceX will launch a smallsat rideshare mission to low Earth orbit with a multitude of payloads. The Transporter-9 mission is set to launch during a 55-minute window starting at 10:49 a.m. PST (18:49 UTC) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
NASA Wants to Learn to Live Off the Land on the Moon
In preparation for the upcoming Artemis missions to the lunar south pole, NASA recently solicited a Request for Information (RFI) from the lunar community to map out its future Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration for developing In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) technologies as part of the agency’s ambitious Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII). The primary goal of LIFT-1, which is being driven by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), is to advance ISRU technologies for extracting oxygen from the lunar regolith, including manufacturing, harnessing, and storing the extracted oxygen for use by future astronauts on the lunar surface. Proposals for LIFT-1 became available to be submitted via NSPIRES on November 6, 2023, with a deadline of December 18, 2023.
Satellite data and 100-year-old images reveal quickening retreat of Greenland's glaciers
Using a combination of historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery of Greenland, scientists have analyzed the movement of more than 1,000 peripheral glaciers from 1890 to 2022. They've discovered the rate of retreat for these peripheral glaciers has doubled in the last 20 years.
Watch SpaceX Dragon capsule arrive at the space station early on Nov. 11
A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Nov. 11), and you can watch the action live.
International Space Station dodges orbital debris hours before SpaceX cargo ship's arrival: report
The International Space Station moved away fromdodged space debris on Friday (Nov. 10), Russian space officials said, hours before a SpaceX cargo ship aims to arrive.
'Lunar swirls' have confused scientists for years. New NASA moon data might clear things up
"Finding a relationship with topography in one swirl location could just be a fluke, but finding it in two vastly separate swirl regions is harder to ignore."
'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 1 review: Lots of moving parts but light on plot
Apple TV Plus's alternative history of the space race blasts off for the 21st century and an audacious mission to capture an asteroid.
A volcanic eruption gave birth to a new island, and a NASA satellite saw it from space (photo)
From its orbit around Earth NASA's Landsat-9 has spotted a newly birthed island off the coast of Japan. The island was forged in fire on Oct.30 when an underwater volcanic eruption rocked the Pacific.
ESA is Testing a Modular Multipurpose Rover that Could Be a Science Lab or a Tiny Bulldozer
Most rovers have been built for Mars, and each one of them is a complex machine designed with specific goals and terrains in mind. But the Moon is different than Mars. We’re not searching for life there; we’re trying to establish a presence.
Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars
It's an odd astronomy target, but a tool bag that gave astronauts the slip during a spacewalk at the International Space Station is surprisingly bright and can be seen with binoculars.
Jupiter's winds whip around in 'cylindrical' form, NASA's Juno probe discovers
NASA's Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter's winds whip around the planet's turbulent atmosphere cylindrically.
