Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 12:37
As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence completes its pre-launch testing, its target asteroids have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own. A special issue of Nature Communications published this week presents studies of the Didymos asteroid and its Dimorphos moon, based on the roughly five and a half minutes of close-range footage returned by NASA’s DART spacecraft before it impacted the latter body – along with post-impact images from the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube.
Study finds space industry growth uncorrelated to larger markets
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 10:18
ULA launches top-secret Space Force payload on Atlas V rocket
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 08:15
The United Launch Alliance saw its Atlas V rocket liftoff from Florida for a national security mission on Tuesday morning.
The Atlas V lifted off from Launch Complex 41, south of Kennedy Space Center, at 6:45 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, carrying a top-secret payload for the U.S. Space Force.
"Payload fairing jettison is confirmed by Atlas V from the edge of space to expose the spacecraf 
SES wins $46 million U.S. Air Force contract for satellite services
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 07:15
One year on 'Mars': Inside NASA's ultra-realistic isolation study
Wednesday, 31 July 2024 06:28
Sealed inside a habitat in Texas and cut off from the outside world for over a year, Kelly Haston was the commander of a first-of-its-kind simulation for NASA to prepare for a future mission to Mars.
From conducting mock "Marswalks" to tending to a vertical garden, and occasionally grappling with boredom— Haston expressed pride in advancing the cause of space exploration while admitting the experience made her reconsider the reality of life on the Red Planet.
"Going to space would be an amazing opportunity," the 53-year-old biologist told AFP.
Repair kit for NASA's NICER mission heading to space station
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 18:59
NASA will deliver a patch kit for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, on the agency's Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission.
SynMax lands NGA pilot project for advanced geospatial MDA tool Theia
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 16:38
SynMax, a leader in geospatial analytics, has secured a pilot project from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for its advanced Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) tool, Theia. This state-of-the-art tool leverages extensive maritime data from Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) and integrates over ten key maritime data sources, powered by SynMax's proprietary AI.
"Theia marks a significan Azimuth Space Program Joins Special Warfare Orientation
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 16:38
As the largest commissioning source for the Space Force, the Academy offers an array of space-related programs. This summer, cadets joined their ROTC peers for the third consecutive year for the Azimuth space education and training program. During the three-week session, participants visited commercial industry partners, launched rockets with the Blue Horizon Rocketry Club, operated satellites w Scientists examine Earth's early life and environmental interactions over 500 million years
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 16:38
The atmosphere, ocean, and life on Earth have interacted over the past 500 million years, creating conditions that supported early organisms. An interdisciplinary team has detailed this co-evolutionary history in a perspective article published in the multidisciplinary open-access journal National Science Review (Oxford University Press, Impact Factor 20.7).
"One of our tasks was to summar A new path to creating element 116 paves the way for heavier atoms
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 16:38
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have a notable history in element discovery, being credited with 16 of the 118 known elements. Recently, they've taken a critical step towards creating a new one: element 120.
An international team led by Berkeley Lab's Heavy Element Group announced the production of superheavy element 116 using a