Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
Sidus Space, Inc. has signed an agreement with SpaceX to launch on Transporter missions manifested for 2024 and 2025. This additional agreement further extends the Company's relationship with SpaceX, chosen in part due to their successful and reliable launch capabilities. Sidus Space expects the Maiden Flight of LizzieSat on SpaceX Transporter-9 later this year. Along with launching in 202

Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
On June 20, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope spent just over one hour staring at Messier 92 (M92), a globular cluster 27,000 light-years away in the Milky Way halo. The observation - among the very first science observations undertaken by Webb - is part of Early Release Science (ERS) program 1334, one of 13 ERS programs designed to help astronomers understand how to use Webb and make the mos

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several mysterious objects hiding in images from the James Webb Space Telescope: six potential galaxies that emerged so early in the universe's history and are so massive they should not be possible under current cosmological theory. Each of the candidate galaxies may have existed at the dawn of the universe roughly 50

Boston MA (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence for giant black holes in dwarf galaxies on a collision course. This result from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has important ramifications for understanding how the first wave of black holes and galaxies grew in the early universe. Collisions between the pairs of dwarf galaxies identified in a new study have pulled gas towards the giant blac

Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
The CARMENES program, led by a consortium of Spanish and German research institutions, in which the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) is a partner, has released 20,000 observations of more than 300 stars. These measurements led to the discovery of 59 planets, with a dozen being potentially habitable. This spectroscopic data set was obtained at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain and is n

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Shubham Kanodia has discovered an unusual planetary system in which a large gas giant planet orbits a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Their findings which are published in The Astronomical Journal, challenge long-held ideas about planet formation. Smaller and cooler than our Sun, M dwarfs are the most common stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Due t

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
Where did the water that makes up Earth's oceans come from? This question has not yet been definitively answered. When Earth was formed, 4.5 billion years ago, it received a quantity of volatile substances from the primordial solar nebula, which were outgassed from the interior of the young planet during the solidification of an early magma ocean and through active volcanism. An initial atmosphe

Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for example, that meteorites brought with them a large part of its water. The extinction of the dinosaurs might also have been triggered by the impact of a very large meteorite. Meteorite craters which are still visible today are rare because most traces of the celestial bodies have long

Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 23, 2023
Relativity Space announced on Twitter that their expendable Terran 1 rocket has secured a launch license and is targeting liftoff on March 8 from Space Launch Complex 16 (SLC-16), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida. The launch window is between 1:00-4:00 p.m. ET (1800-2100 GMT). The 110-foot (33-meter) Terran 1 will undergo a crucial launch test on the "Good Luck, Have Fun

Washington DC (UPI) Feb 22, 2023
NASA and SpaceX announced that its manned Crew-6 flight scheduled to liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday has been delayed 24 hours so engineers can work their way through what has been described as "minor issues." SpaceX's capsule Endeavour was scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday evening. After a flight readiness review briefing on Tuesday afternoon, it was decid