The crew of the Rocinante and Detective Miller gather for a rare communal meal in the first episode of “The Expanse” Season 2. NEW YORK — Fans of Syfy’s space thriller series “The Expanse” can look forward to deeper characters, moral dilemmas and changing dynamics in the upcoming season, cast and crew said at a […]
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Coy Dione
Dione’s lit hemisphere faces away from Cassini’s camera, yet the moon’s darkened surface features are dimly illuminated in this image, due to Saturnshine. To source
SpaceX Delays First Flight From NASA Shuttle Launch Pad
A revamped space shuttle Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is being prepared for launches of SpaceX Falcon rockets starting mid-February. SpaceX on Sunday bumped this week’s planned launch of an EchoStar communications satellite until after a mid-February cargo run to the International Space Station for NASA, saying it needs more time to […]
Wind satellite heads for final testing
The road to realising ESA’s Aeolus mission may have been long and bumpy, but developing novel space technology is, by its very nature, challenging. With the satellite now equipped with its revolutionary instrument, the path ahead is much smoother as it heads to France to begin the last round of tests before being shipped to […]
Bursts of Methane May Have Prepped Ancient Mars for Life
Scientists have a new theory for how early Mars managed to stay warm enough for liquid surface water, a condition that is believed to be essential for life. An armada of orbiters, landers and rovers studying Mars have returned overwhelming evidence that the dry, cold planet of today was far different three- to four billion […]
On Mars, Life Could Be Hiding Under the Rocks
Living on Mars would be tough by any measure — so tough, that there’s considerable debate about whether even the hardiest of microbes could survive. The atmosphere is thin, the surface is baked with radiation and the planet itself is mostly arid, dusty and wind-swept. But there could be niches where life thrived in the […]
These Powerful Blazars Are the Most Distant Ever Seen
Monster black holes shooting jets of gamma-ray radiation right at us have been spotted farther away than ever before, dating back to when the universe was nearly one-tenth its current age. The five distant objects, called gamma-ray blazars, deepen the mystery of how black holes so large could have formed so early in the universe’s […]
The Beastly, Yet Gentle, Giant 'Otto' Under the Milky Way
The massive contraption, not a new Mars rover but a 28-wheeled vehicle ALMA transporter known as an Otto, is used to move ALMA antennas among the various locations on the Chainantor Plateau in the Atacama Desert of Chile. While this may look like a colossal new rover for trekking around the Red Planet, it is […]
Tiny Newfound Asteroid Gives Earth a Close Shave
An asteroid the size of a pickup truck narrowly missed Earth late last night (Jan. 29), just hours after scientists first spotted the space rock. The near-Earth asteroid, known as 2017 BH30, zoomed within 32,200 miles (51,820 kilometers) of the planet , about 13 percent the distance from Earth to the moon. Closest approach occurred at […]
Under Pressure: Why Spaceflight Is So Hard on Astronauts' Eyes
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg images her eye with a fundoscope (an instrument used to examine the inner eye) aboard the International Space Station during the Expedition 37 mission in 2013. Researchers may now know why spaceflight is so hard on the eyes — and what to do about the problem. The likely culprit is the […]
Up close and personal
The Soyuz carrying ESA’s new SmallGEO telecom platform is captured at the moment of liftoff on a rainy evening in Kourou To source
Seeking Alpha Centauri Planets, Researchers Welcome Multiple Efforts
Alpha Centauri A and B orbit one another 4.3 light-years from Earth. To directly image planets orbiting either of the stars, researchers must cancel out the overwhelming light from both of the stars. It’s always an exciting time to be involved in space exploration, and 2017 has already proved to be no exception. At Project […]