A Long March 4B rocket launches a pair of Tianhui 2 mapping satellites. Credit: CASC
China launched a Long March 4B rocket Wednesday carrying two Tianhui radar mapping satellites into orbit more than 300 miles in altitude.
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Svetlana Savitskaya: Second woman in space, 1st female spacewalker
Former cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the second woman to go to space, the first woman to perform a spacewalk and the first woman to go to space twice.
Astronomy Jargon 101: Spectrum
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll get the whole picture with today’s topic: spectrum!
'The Colony' trailer shows the struggle for survival upon returning to a once-ravaged Earth
Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace in "The Colony."
How can we take pictures of Earth-like exoplanets? Use the sun!
If we ever want to take pictures of an Earth-like exoplanet, we need to think bigger than the biggest telescopes on Earth.
Ingenuity’s Flight 12 was a Tricky one, Flying Over Hazardous Terrain
The Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has now completed its 12th flight, where it acted as a scout, looking ahead for dangerous terrain for it’s partner in crime, the Perseverance rover.
Physicists give weird new phase of matter an extra dimension
The new phase of matter behaves like a solid and a frictionless liquid at the same time
Virgin Orbit is buying 2 more rocket-launching planes
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has rolled into a patch of ground that could shed considerable light on the Red Planet's climate history.
Hubble Space Telescope studies peculiar 'ultra-diffuse galaxy' (photo)
If skies are clear this weekend, we’ll see the full Moon. And not just any old full Moon, but the Blue Moon — the “true” Blue Moon.
NASA visitor complex to open immersive 'Gateway' to deep space in 2022
If skies are clear this weekend, you'll see the full Moon. And not just any old full Moon, but the Blue Moon . . . the "true" Blue Moon!
SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut launch for NASA delayed by 'minor medical issue'
Four concepts are competing to be NASA’s next flagship mission. From exo-Earths to X-rays, what will the future hold?
Gaia Finds Ancient Satellite Galaxy Pontus Embedded in Milky Way
The Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft recorded the sound of the solar wind at Venus as it flew just 340 miles above the planet during a maneuver designed to adjust its path.
Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space
On Aug. 9, Maxar Technologies' WorldView-3 satellite snapped a great shot of SpaceX's "Starbase" facility, where the company is building and testing its Starship deep-space transportation system.
Russia will launch a film crew to the International Space Station Tuesday and you can watch it live
NASA and Star Trek are teaming up to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry today in a webcast event.
It’ll Soon be Possible to Make Satellite Phone Calls With Your Regular Phone
The solar system's largest planet reaches opposition today (Aug. 19).
NASA awards $415 million for private space stations amid ISS transition questions
Arianespace will launch dozens of internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb today (Aug. 19), and you can watch the liftoff live.
The 1st trailer for 'Ripout,' a sci-fi horror shooter, is full of alien monsters
The game launches in 2022.
Greenhouses Probably won’t Work on Mars Because of Cosmic Radiation. Even the Plants Will Have to Live Underground
Mars is a lifeless wasteland for more than one reason. Not only are the temperatures and lack of water difficult for life to deal with, the lack of a magnetic field means radiation constantly pummels the surface. If humans ever plan to spend prolonged periods of time on the red planet, they’ll need to support an additional type of life – crops. However, it appears that even greenhouses on the surface won’t do enough to protect their plants from the deadly radiation of the Martian surface, at least according to a new paper published by researchers at Wageningen University and the Delft University of Technology.
Maxar satellite images show thousands of people at Kabul airport
Maxar’s WorldView 3 satellite captured this view of Hamid Karzai International Airport on Monday, Aug. 16. The view shows crowds gathered around parked aircraft. Credit: Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies
Maxar’s WorldView 3 commercial imaging satellite captured overhead views of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, earlier this week as thousands of people converged on the runway and gathered near aircraft after the Taliban militants took control of the capital city.
Musk Says That Refueling Starship for Lunar Landings Will Take 8 Launches (Maybe 4)
The fight over who gets to take the Artemis astronauts back to the Moon continues! It all began when NASA announced that they had awarded the contract for its Human Landing System (HLS), the reusable lunar lander that would ferry the Artemis III astronauts to the lunar surface. This decision did not sit well with the other two finalists, Blue Origin and Dynetics, who appealed the decision because NASA was showing “favoritism.”
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting Aug. 25 for next spaceflight
Blue Origin is targeting Aug. 25 for the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, company representatives announced today (Aug. 18).
