‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign | Nasa
Orbiting 250 miles above the US in the international space station, astronaut Cady Coleman did not look down…
PM Narendra Modi Meets Skyroot Founders, Discusses India’s Future Space Plans
Delhi: Founders of Skyroot Aerospace, the company which successfully launched India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket Vikram-1, met…
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…
When darkness fell during the total solar eclipse, zoo animals responded in wildly different ways
Japanese macaques had the most obvious response, as they became much less active and moved higher into branches.…
Amendment 67: D.3 AGIGO: Change to IXPE and NICER General Observer Second Opportunity in ROSES-25
The IXPE GO Program solicits proposals for investigations in any area of astrophysics (not constrained to IXPE’s prime…
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…
Starship in space! See highlights of SpaceX megarocket’s epic Flight 13 test launch (video)
The 13th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too.…
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…
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…
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…
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…