On April 15, 2023, a SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) over the Indian Ocean, carrying nearly 4,300 pounds of scientific samples and hardware for NASA. Among the cargo were tomatoes grown in space as part of the Veg-05 experiment, which aimed to examine the effects of light quality and […]
Continue readingNASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission, scheduled for 2024, is set to provide a significant boost to research on Jupiter’s moon Europa. The mission will provide imagery and other science data, and the spacecraft will conduct about 50 flybys of Europa after reaching Jupiter in 2030. The mission’s sophisticated payload of nine science instruments will be […]
Continue readingNASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has made history by completing its 50th flight on Mars.[0] The first aircraft on another planet reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling over 1,057.09 feet (322.2 meters) in 145.7 seconds.[1] The helicopter set a new altitude record of 59 feet (18 meters) and then landed near the 800-meter-wide “Belva […]
Continue readingResearchers from the University of Washington have discovered a unique underwater spring named Pythia’s Oasis, which is located about 50 miles off Newport, Oregon. The paper detailing the discovery was published in the journal Science Advances on 25 January 2023.[0] The spring emits warm, chemically distinct fluid which is sourced 2.5 miles beneath the seafloor […]
Continue readingA team of researchers from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has created the most detailed map of dark matter distribution across a quarter of the entire sky, extending deep into the cosmos.[0] The groundbreaking new image confirms Albert Einstein’s theory of how colossal cosmic structures grow and curve light over the span of 14 […]
Continue readingSea levels along the United States coastline have been rising rapidly over the past 12 years, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The research found that the coastline along the southeastern US and the Gulf Coast has risen by half an inch every year since 2010.[0] The findings significantly exceed previous predictions […]
Continue readingNASA’s Artemis II mission is set to embark on a 10-day round-the-moon flight in November 2024, with a crew comprising four astronauts: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen and Christina Hammock Koch, the first woman to orbit the moon. The mission will serve as the first fully crewed test flight as […]
Continue readingNASA has named its crew for the Artemis II mission, which is set to launch in 2024 and become the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in over 50 years.[0] The mission will be led by Commander Reid Wiseman, who will be joined by pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, and Christina Koch, […]
Continue readingNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun. The image shows the planet’s unique atmospheric features and its dramatic ring system in unprecedented detail.[0] Thanks to the telescope’s sophisticated sensitivity, scientists can now perceive the most delicate dusty rings that were once only spotted by […]
Continue readingA team of researchers at Yale University have discovered a supermassive black hole that appears to be hurtling through space at an unprecedented speed, leaving a trail of stars in its wake.[0] The black hole weighs as much as 20 million suns and is travelling so fast that if it were in our solar system, […]
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