Space

SpaceX plans to launch 30 satellites to orbit early Saturday morning (Dec. 21).A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday at 6:34 a.m. EDT (1134 GMT; 3:34 a.m. local California...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now been focusing its powerful eye on space for more than two years,...

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Maurice Valdez, Niki Parenteau, Dori Myer, and Judy Alfter. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed...

As NASA plans missions to the Moon and Mars, one challenge is figuring out how to provide crew members with enough healthy food. Bringing along a supply for months or even years in space is impractical, and stored food...

Even if you knew nothing about astronomy, you’d understand that exploding stars are forceful and consequential events. How could they not be? Supernovae play a pivotal role in the Universe with their energetic, destructive demises.There are different types of...

Science & Exploration 17/12/2024 425 views 11 likesSubmarines are emerging as a unique research platform to study human adaption to extreme environments – from ocean depths to outer space. ESA, the Portuguese Space Agency and the Portuguese Navy are now using...

Things are getting hot for SpaceX's next Starship launch.SpaceX fired up its next Starship spacecraft during an engine test over the weekend, ahead of the company's 7th orbital test flight of the gargantuan megarocket. SpaceX ignited Starship's Raptor engines...

NASA has selected FedSync-BFS, LLC of Alexandria, Virginia, to provide administrative services for multiple NASA centers. The Multi-Center Administrative Support Services Contract is a firm-fixed-price and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a value not to exceed $200 million during a five-year ordering...

Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse. Electrons are squeezed together...

The sun may produce extremely powerful bursts of radiation more frequently than we thought. Such “superflares” seem to happen...