Upon Closer Inspection: Wabtec, Artemis II, and the New Space Race
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“I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
But what about spacecraft flying on more well-trodden paths to the Moon, Mars, Venus, or the asteroid belt?…
Lasers in moon craters could create a lunar GPS system
Placing ultrastable lasers inside some of the coldest, darkest lunar craters could help scientists establish a GPS-like navigation…
White hydrogen discovered in billion-year-old Canadian Shield rock points to potential new energy source
image: Continuous long-term measurement underground at a mine in northern Ontario provided evidence of sustained accumulation and discharge…
The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth at a gravitational balance point so precarious it has to fire its thrusters every three weeks just to stay there, and when its fuel runs out around 2040 it will drift away forever with no possibility of refueling or rescue.
The James Webb Space Telescope sits roughly 1 million miles from Earth at a gravitational sweet spot called…
Blue Kangaroo Paw Is a Striking Rare Plant at RHS Chelsea
At the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week, there was one plant that instantly captured my curiosity: the…
‘Potential to cause fire’ – The one place never to put old vapes
People who throw old vapes away in the bin at home risk starting a fire, Waste Electrical and…
Worker dies at SpaceX’s Starbase in leadup to Starship V3 megarocket launch
A worker died at SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the company…
UC Davis scientists identify protein key to male fertility
The causes of male infertility can be hard to diagnose, with many tests failing to detect genetic defects.…
Warming erodes climate connectivity for terrestrial vertebrates
Urban, M. C. Climate change extinctions. Science 386, 1123–1128 (2024). Article CAS Google Scholar Nolan, C. et al.…
Seen from Mars, an interstellar visitor looks completely different and changes what astronomers thought they knew
Stacked images of 3I/ATLAS acquired by HiRIC CMOS camera on board the Tianwen-1 spacecraft (upper row) and the…
NASA’s MAVEN Detects Atmospheric Effect on Mars That ‘No One Expected’
We know Mars to be many things: dusty, cold, and missing a global magnetic field. In a recent…