Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 16:02
There are unexplored regions of the universe—and there are also unexplored times. In fact, there's a nearly 400-million-year gap in our universe's history that we've never seen: a time before stars known as the Dark Ages. To investigate that era, researchers want to pick up a particular radio signal that can't be measured from Earth.
The first step to listening for it is a pathfinder project known as the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night, or LuSEE-Night. The experiment is slated to head to the moon in 2025, where it will test technology in the harsh lunar environment.
The project is a collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy, with partners from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Brookhaven National Laboratory (lead DOE lab), UC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota.
The Race for More Space: The flawed logic behind making space a 17th Critical Infrastructure
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:21
Space Critical Infrastructure: Breaking the Binary Debate and a Call for Space Council Action
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:02
Andreas Mogensen becomes International Space Station commander
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 14:15
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen became commander of the International Space Station (ISS) on September 26, 2023, in a traditional ceremony in which the departing commander, Sergey Prokopyev, handed over the symbolic key of the Space Station. Mogensen is the sixth European to take on the role of ISS commander.
Mogensen will serve as commander for the rest of his Huginn mission until early 2024. During his command, he will be responsible for overseeing the crew's activities and ensuring the safety and operation of the Space Station.
Shh! Quiet cables set to help reveal rare physics events
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
Imagine trying to tune a radio to a single station but instead encountering static noise and interfering signals from your own equipment. That is the challenge facing research teams searching for evidence of extremely rare events that could help understand the origin and nature of matter in the universe. It turns out that when you are trying to tune into some of the universe's weakest signals, i Three Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
On Sunday morning, a capsule the size of a mini-fridge dropped from the skies over western Utah, carrying a first-of-its-kind package: about 250 grams of dirt and dust plucked from the surface of an asteroid. As a candy-striped parachute billowed open to slow its freefall, the capsule plummeted down to the sand, slightly ahead of schedule.
The special delivery came courtesy of OSIRIS-REx How OSIRIS-REx is helping scientists study the sonic signature of meteoroids
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
In the high desert of Nevada, Elizabeth Silber watched NASA's Sample Return Capsule from OSIRIS-REx descend into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, but unlike most scientists, she wasn't there for the asteroid rocks.
Silber, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, is working with researchers from Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, TDA Research Curiosity the Cautious Rover: Sols 3957-3959
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
Earth planning day: Friday, September 22, 2023: When I opened the workspace imagery this morning, I was happy to see some nice big rock outcrops in reach of the rover and started to pick some nice targets for contact science with APXS, before realizing that one of the rear wheels is perched on a rock. Sure enough, the drive had cut short when the rover detected it had driven over an unexpectedly Zenno and D-to develop superconducting electromagnets
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
New Zealand headquartered space-flight systems company Zenno Astronautics (Zenno), a developer of world-first superconducting electromagnets for space applications, and D-Orbit, a company leader in the space logistics industry, have formed a special commercial partnership to collaborate on the development of new space products and services.
The initial project will see Zenno and D-Orbit co Did life exist on Mars? Other planets? With AI's help, we may know soon
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets - "the holy grail of astrobiology."
In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a seven-member team, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and led by Jim Cleaves and Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science, reports that, with 90% accuracy, their artifi Historic NASA wind tunnel testing Mars Ascent Vehicle
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a critical part of NASA missions going all the way back to the Apollo program.
The same facility that provided valuable testing for NASA missions to low-Earth orbit and the Moon is now helping the agency prepare to launch the first rocket from Mars. T All engines added to NASA's Artemis II core stage
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
Teams at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally joined all four RS-25 engines onto the core stage for NASA's Artemis II Moon rocket. The flight test is the agency's first crewed mission under Artemis.
Technicians added the first engine to NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage Sept. 11. Teams installed the second engine onto the stage Sept. 15 with th Astronomers find an abundance of Milky Way-like Galaxies in early Universe
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:46
Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to new research published this week,
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers including those at The University of Manchester and University of Victoria i