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Lunar Lander for the Artemis V Mission to Be Announced on May 19
17 May 2023, 16:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it will spill the name of the company tasked with making the lunar lander for the Artemis V mission on Friday, May 19.
NASA Surrounds Artemis II Service Module With Huge Speaker and Blast Sound at the Thing
16 May 2023, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announced it completed a series of acoustic tests for the European Service Module that will go into the Artemis II Orion spaceship
World's First Artificial Gravity Space Station to Be Born With Help From SpaceX
15 May 2023, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space startup Vast announces plans to launch the first module of the Heaven-1 artificial gravity space station in 2025 with help from Spacex
A Pack of Eight Dust Devils Dance the Tornado Dance on the Surface of Mars
14 May 2023, 00:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2015 the HiRISE orbital camera captured no less than eight dust devils dancing on the surface of Mars, NASA recently made the photo public
Raised Feature on Mars Looks Like Some Ancient Road, Weirdly Enough It Was Once a River
13 May 2023, 00:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This elevated feature somewhere in the Antoniadi Crater on Mars is actually a former river bed. When seen from space, it looks like the remnants of some road
Martian Rivers Ran Deeper and Faster Than Believed, Got Us Thinking About Aliens Rafting
12 May 2023, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / New data provided by the Perseverance rover on Mars point to ancient rivers there running deeper and faster than previously believed
Webb Telescope Makes Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Shed Some Cool Secrets
11 May 2023, 09:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space telescope (JWST) gave us the clearest look at a super-Earth planet that's like a mini-Neptune, widespread in the galaxy but absent from Sol
It's Absolutely Scary How Massive Black Holes Are, Ton 618 Is 60 Billion Solar Masses
10 May 2023, 13:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases an animation video showing then of the known black holes in our Universe and how large they are compared to our solar system
World's First 3D-Printed Rocket Flew with New Copper Alloy Engines, Details Inside
10 May 2023, 10:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket flew and failed back in March 2023, but for a brief time it proved a new 3D-printed engine copper alloy works
Virgin Galactic Plans Crewed Flight for May, Spaceship Is Packed Full of People
9 May 2023, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic announced the crew of Unity25 flight, the final test mission before the start of commercial operations later in June
Imagined Russian Angara Rocket Lifts Off for the First Time From Vostochny Cosmodrome
8 May 2023, 09:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animation specialist Hazegrayart gives us a glimpse of the new Russian Angara rocket taking off from its designated launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome
This Weird Orange Planet Has Such Low Density It's Like a Giant Floating Marshmallow
7 May 2023, 00:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This strange planet is the size of Jupiter yet it has a mass just a fraction of our gas giant. It's lowest-density planet ever detected around a red dwarf star
Sparkly Planet Eight Times the Size of Earth Is Actually Hell
6 May 2023, 00:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A Super Earth planet called Janssen (55 Cancri e) needs just 18 hours to orbit its star, despite its beauty it's a literal hell
Video Shows Dying Star Devouring a Jupiter-Sized Planet, It Will Happen to Earth Too
4 May 2023, 10:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the first time ever humans see what happens when a star turns into a red giant and how it devours nearby planets during its expansion
Webb Sees Water Vapor Where There Should Be None: On a Star, Or On a Very Hot Planet
2 May 2023, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor around a rocky planet 26 light years away from Earth, the planet's red dwarf star could be the culprit.
FAA Grounds SpaceX Starship After In-Flight Explosion Until Investigation Concludes
1 May 2023, 10:58 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / FAA launched a mishap investigation into the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy test mission resulting in an explosion mid-flight, effectively grounding the program
NASA Wants to Free Moon Soil Oxygen Using Carbothermal Reactors
28 Apr 2023, 15:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it may have found a way to extract oxygen from lunar regolith after a test on Earth using simulants showed promising results
This James Webb Photo Shows Galaxies So Far in Space and Time, It'll Make Your Head Spin
28 Apr 2023, 09:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb telescope sends back the first ever image of a proto-cluster of galaxies from just 650 million years after the Big Bang
Meteoroid Strike on Far Side of Mars Reveals Exciting New Details About Planet's Core
26 Apr 2023, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Data gathered by the InSight lander during a quake caused by a meteoroid impact on Mars helps scientists reveal more about the planet's core
Goodbye, 'No Service' Areas! First Direct Smartphone-to-Satellite Phone Call Completed
25 Apr 2023, 21:24 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / AST SpaceMobile successfully tested a US-to-Japan voice call using ordinary smartphones connected via the company's BlueWalker3 telecom sat