The 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for NASA carries scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including studies of enhanced optical communications and measurement of atmospheric waves. The uncrewed SpaceX…
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How NASA Is protecting Europa Clipper from space radiation
Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA’s Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL on Oct. 7. The vault will…
Microsecond Burst Hiding in Telescope Archives
An international team of researchers led by Dutch Ph.D. candidate Mark Snelders (ASTRON and University of Amsterdam) has sifted through telescope archives and discovered radio pulses from the distant universe…
Astronomers carry out largest ever cosmological computer simulation
The background image shows the present-day distribution of matter in a slice through the largest FLAMINGO simulation, which is a cubic volume of 2.8 Gpc (9.1 billion light years) on…
Commercial Space: NASA Has an App for That
Software two decades in the making helps private space companies providing commercial space services save time, money. Parker Solar Probe is providing scientists with new information about the Sun, thanks…
Astronomers spot most distant radio burst yet
How much does the universe weigh? Astronomers hope fast radio bursts, arriving from distant galaxies, could provide an answer. Eight billion years ago, something happened in a distant galaxy that…
Black holes could come in ‘perfect pairs’ in an ever expanding universe
Two black holes can be held at a fixed distance when their gravitational attraction (red arrows) is offset by the cosmic expansion (blue arrows) associated with a cosmological constant. Such…
Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence of quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth. Artist’s rendering…
Pulsars May Make Dark Matter Glow
The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is that dark matter consists of particles known as axions. A…
India conducts space flight test ahead of planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath arrives to address the media after the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023.…
