He was one of the most distinguished American astronomers of his day, but an obsession with Martians became his downfall
Professor David Peck Todd is one of the most remarkable astronomers you’ve never heard of. A distinguished professor…
World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain | Astronomy
On a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out…
SpaceX at $100 could mean investors see zero value in its AI
The selloff in SpaceX shares has driven the stock near a level that would imply investors are assigning…
NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on…
Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a “dead end” for rapid reuse
However, according to a new analysis by Rasky and two other space industry officials, former NASA astronaut Charles…
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams to Discuss Space Station Mission
NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news…
The Parker Solar Probe flies through the sun’s outer atmosphere behind a carbon shield eleven and a half centimetres thick, and the arrangement works so well that while the front face glows at almost fourteen hundred degrees, the instruments sitting a metre behind it stay at roughly the temperature of a comfortable living room
At its closest approaches, Parker Solar Probe passes about 6.2 million kilometres above the Sun’s visible surface. Sunlight…
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young textile worker, and in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth alone for three days, longer than every American astronaut combined had managed by then
When you picture the people who flew the first space missions, you probably picture a certain kind of…
Rocket Lab wins $266 million U.S. Space Force contract for up to 18 launches supporting missile defense development
Rocket Lab has secured a $266 million U.S. Space Force contract for up to 18 suborbital launches tied…
Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing
After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big…
How would AI data centers in space even work? A former NASA robotics chief explains
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The 24-hour day is not fixed but slowly stretching, and in the dinosaurs’ time it was shorter: the Moon’s pull is gently braking Earth’s spin, so a day back then ran about 23.5 hours, and far shorter deeper in the past
The day you are living through right now is longer than any day a dinosaur ever saw. Not…