Associate Professor and Crofton Faculty Fellow Scott England. Credit: Ben Murphy for Virginia Tech. On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend,…
Category: Space
What Boeing Starliner astronauts are doing on ISS as NASA works on their ride home
Boeing Starliner’s two NASA astronauts have been busy in space since arriving two months ago on the first-ever crewed Starliner mission. While astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were expected…
Research team releases a 76 m-per-pixel global color image dataset and map of Mars
A true color Mars global image map in Robinson projection is created with Tianwen-1 MoRIC image data, the resolution of the original data is ~76 m per pixel, and the…
India launching Earth-observing satellite tonight on 3rd mission of new rocket
India plans to launch an advanced Earth-observing satellite tonight (Aug. 15), on the third-ever mission of its new SSLV rocket. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s EOS-08 spacecraft is scheduled to…
NASA telescopes work out black hole’s feeding schedule
Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers has made important headway in…
Scientists want to send endangered species to the moon
As more and more species near extinction, scientists have been collecting samples from animals, plants and other creatures and storing them in biorepositories across the globe (SN: 5/8/19). But climate…
New astrophysics research supports the existence of an unknown influence
A University of California, Riverside study has expanded our knowledge of the universe’s structure and supports the existence of a new physical effect, such as a particle that has never been observed…
Primary instrument for Roman Space Telescope arrives at NASA Goddard
Technicians inspect NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument upon delivery to the big clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn The primary instrument…
Lego Technic planet earth and moon in orbit review
Essential info: Price: $74.99/£69.99 Model number: 42179 Number of pieces: 526 Dimensions (inches): 9 (H) x 12.5 (L) x 7 (W) Recommended age: 10+ The Lego Technic planet earth and…
Earth hit by ‘severe’ solar storm
Photo of the Sun taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager of the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter probe, distributed by the ESA on July 16, 2020. The Earth was hit…
