Tag: Space

USA – Spacesuits and Lawsuits Put 2024 Moon Landing in Jeopardy (Defense One)

NASA's Space Launch System intended to land American astronauts, including the first woman and the next man, on the Moon by 2024. JUDE GUIDRY /...

USA – Space Development Agency launches experimental infrared sensor into orbit (Defense News)

An artist's depiction of L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile...

Space – AsiTV replay: Il Giappone entra nel Gateway (Global Science)

Global Science writes: Il Giappone è ufficialmente nel Gateway. Dopo Europa e Canada, partner storici della Iss, anche la Jaxa formalizza il proprio contributo...

Space – NASA’s TESS Tunes into an All-sky ‘Symphony’ of Red Giant Stars (NASA)

NASA writes: Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have identified an unprecedented collection of pulsating red giant stars all across...

Space – Huge Rings Around a Black Hole (NASA)

NASA writes: A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The...

Space – A Few Steps Closer to Europa: Spacecraft Hardware Makes Headway (NASA)

NASA writes: The hardware that makes up NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is rapidly taking shape, as engineering components and instruments are prepared for delivery to the...

Space – 10 Years Ago: Juno Launched to Observe Jupiter (NASA)

NASA writes: On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno spacecraft launched on a five-year interplanetary journey that took it to the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s...

Space – Juno Celebrates 10 Years With a New View of Jovian Moon Ganymede (NASA)

NASA writes: This infrared view of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its...

Space – My Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Scouts Ridge Area for Perseverance (NASA)

NASA writes: Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photo or two from their mission. For Kevin Hand, a scientist at NASA’s...

Space – Stars Are Exploding in Dusty Galaxies. We Just Can’t Always See Them (NASA)

NASA writes: You’d think that supernovae – the death throes of massive stars and among the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe – would...

Space – Un inconsueto ‘Signore degli Anelli’ (Global Science)

Valeria Guarnieri writes: Anche i buchi neri hanno il loro ‘Signore degli Anelli’: nel sistema V404 Cygni, infatti, è stato scovato uno di questi elusivi...

Space – Crater trio (ESA)

ESA writes: This image was taken on 22 March 2021 in the Lunae Planum region of Mars by the CaSSIS camera on the...

Space – Il ritmo delle giganti rosse (Global Science)

Valeria Guarnieri writes: Una vasta ‘orchestra’ cosmica, la cui armonia scaturisce da onde sonore che si formano all’interno dei ‘musicisti’: si tratta di un ampio gruppo di stelle...

Space – Cinque supernovae per Spitzer (Global Science)

Fulvia Croci writes: Spitzer ha individuato cinque supernovae nascoste, non rilevate dalla luce ottica. Il telescopio ha osservato 40 galassie polverose, migliorando le tecniche che vengono usate...

Space – Colpo di calore extra su Giove (Global Science)

Giuseppina Pulcrano writes: Giove, situato nel Sistema Solare ad una distanza cinque volte superiore a quella tra il Sole e la Terra, dovrebbe riportare...

Space – Buchi neri attivi, nuovo studio sui gas espulsi (Global Science)

Barbara Ranghelli writes: Una giovane ricercatrice del Center for Astro, Particle, and Planetary Physics della New York University di Abu Dhabi (Nyuad) negli Emirati Arabi, Aisha Al Yazeedi, ha...