NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has chosen a Connecticut-based company to conduct an aircraft engine flight demonstration designed to showcase quieter, more fuel-efficient, less polluting engine technology. To source
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January 1986 – Voyager 2 Flyby of Miranda
Uranus’ moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites, just 480 kilometers (about 300 miles) in diameter. Nine images were combined to obtain this full-disc, south-polar view. To source
NASA's Aurora-Watching Rocket Campaign Blasts Off
Over three missions and five launches, NASA will launch rockets into the Earth’s upper atmosphere to study auroras. NASA is known for its awe-inspiring missions to explore the far reaches of the cosmos, but this month, the space agency is preparing for very different kinds of rocket launches: ones to explore the mysteries of Earth’s […]
Elon Musk Sees Brain-Computer Systems in Humans' Future
Is human intelligence heading toward a cyborg-dominated future? Elon Musk thinks so. In a recent tweet, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO teased that a brain-computer system that links human brains to a computer interface — a “neural lace” — may be announced early this year, reported TechCrunch . Musk first mentioned the neural lace concept […]
The Universe Is Expanding Surprisingly Fast
The universe really is expanding faster than scientists had thought , new research suggests. Astronomers have pegged the universe’s current expansion rate — a value known as the Hubble constant , after American astronomer Edwin Hubble — at about 44.7 miles (71.9 kilometers) per second per megaparsec. (One megaparsec is about 3.26 million light-years.) This newly derived […]
In Photos: Universe's Expansion Revealed by Quasars & Cosmic Lenses
On Jan. 26, 2017, astronomers announced that the universe is expanding faster than previously thought. See photos of the quasars seen by the Hubble Space Telescope that made the discovery possible. Shown Here: Hubble Space Telescope view of the distant quasar RXJ1131-1231. A foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a bright […]
Flickering Quasars Used To Measure Universe Expansion | Video
By Steve Spaleta | January 26, 2017 10:00am ET Using gravitational lensing, astronomers have imaged distant quasars with the Hubble Space Telescope. “Relative time between two flickers is correctly represented in this animation, in reality the delays are in the range of days to two weeks,” according to the Hubble team. [Full Story] credit : […]
Clingy Alien Planets May Fling Their Moons Out of Orbit
This artist’s rendering shows the atmosphere of Mars being stripped off by particle surges from the sun. A new study suggests high levels of radiation from a parent star could reduce the number of moons around planets that orbit close to their parent star. Alien planets that orbit especially close to their stars have a […]
Proposed Space Mission Would Use the Moon to Help Search for Exploding Stars
An artist’s rendition of the Lunar Occultation Explorer (LOX) spacecraft, a proposed mission for NASA’s Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. Earth’s moon could help scientists locate exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, according to the creators of a proposed space science mission. The Lunar Occultation Explorer (LOX) would orbit the moon and scan […]
Sunburnt country
Operations image of the week: ESA’s deep-space dish at New Norcia squats on some of Australia’s famously iron-rich soils To source
Temple for the Moon
Technology image of the week: ESA’s artist-in-residence has designed a place of contemplation to build at the Moon’s south pole To source
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[JAXA President Monthly Press Conference] JAXA President Monthly Regular Press Conference December 2016
JAXA President Monthly Press Conference Speech Abstracts by Naoki Okumura, President of JAXADate and time: From 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. on December 16 (Fri), 2016Venue: JAXA Tokyo Office Presentation Room (B1 floor)MC: Yoshikazu Shoji, Director, Public Affairs Department KOUNOTORI6 Launch On December 9, cargo transporter to the International Space Station, KOUNOTORI6 was launched by H-IIB […]
Juno’s Close Look at the Little Red Spot
The JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes. To source