Space Shuttle Endeavour Exhibit Gains Flight-Worthy Solid Rocket Boosters
A pair of flight-worthy solid rocket boosters, like these two seen in 2010 for the last mission of the space shuttle Endeavour, are being donated by Orbital ATK and NASA to the California Science Center for Endeavour’s vertical display. The space shuttle Endeavour exhibit at the California Science Center is getting a “boost” in the […]
NASA's Historic First Mission Control Center Recreated for 'Hidden Figures'
NASA’s original mission control as seen recreated in detail for the 20th Century Fox film “Hidden Figures.” NASA’s original mission control briefly returns to service, recreated for the 20th Century Fox film “Hidden Figures,” seven years after the historic facility was demolished and two months after its contents reopened on public display as part of […]
Rocky Mountains From Orbit
Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed the Rocky Mountains from his vantage point in low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station. He shared the image with his social media followers on Jan. 9, 2017, writing, “the Rocky mountains are a step too high – even for the clouds […]
Odd Shadow Around Young Star May Be Sign of Newborn Planet
These images, taken a year apart by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, reveal a shadow moving counterclockwise around a gas-and-dust disk encircling the young star TW Hydrae. The two images at the top show an uneven brightness across the disk. Through enhanced image processing (images at the bottom), the darkening becomes even more apparent. Astronomers might […]
A Machine Astronomer Could Help Us Find the Unknowns in the Universe
Part of CSIRO’s ASKAP antennas at teh Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO in Western Australia. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. What have pulsars, quasars, dark matter and dark energy got in common? Answer: each of them took the discoverer by surprise. […]
Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Wings by 600 Days in Orbit
An Air Force X-37B robotic space plane is shown after it landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fourth mission of the program is now underway and just passed 600 days in Earth orbit. The U.S. Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane has now spent 600 days in Earth orbit on the vessel’s […]
Asteroid sleuths go back to the future
Careful sleuthing through decade-old images has enabled ESA’s asteroid team to decide that a newly discovered space rock poses little threat of hitting Earth any time soon. To source
[Project Topics] Paper published on the long-distance laser link experiment with LIDAR
Researchers successfully established a laser link with the LIDAR instrument on the Japanese asteroid probe spacecraft Hayabusa2 after its Earth swing-by in the winter of 2015. This is the third time in the world that such a link was established with a spacecraft beyond the Earth-Moon distance. The researchers used the laser link to determine […]
Earth's Moon Formed in 'Moonlet' Mash-Up After Many Earth Impacts
An artistic depiction of a collision between two planetary bodies that will form a new moon, while a pre-existing moon already orbits the proto-Earth Earth’s moon may be the product of many small moonlets that merged after multiple objects as big as Mars collided with Earth, leaving disks of planetary debris orbiting the planet, a […]
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Breaking Boundaries in New Engine Designs
In an effort to improve fuel efficiency, NASA and the aircraft industry are rethinking aircraft design. To source
Photographer Captures Spectacular Star Trails Over Sculpture Park
Amateur astrophotographer Adam Gordon took this photo of star trails in Anza Borrego Desert State Park in southern California on Sept. 30, 2016. Star trails look larger than life among the sculptures of a grasshopper and scorpion. Astrophotographer Adam Gordon took the image at California’s Anza Borrego Desert State Park on the night of Sept. […]