SpaceX Set to Launch NASA’s Crew-11 Mission to the Space Station The New York Times Live coverage: Former members of Crew-9, Starliner-1 missions unite to fly to the Space Station Spaceflight Now WATCH: NASA’s SpaceX Dragon Crew-11 set to blast off for International Space Station at 12:09 pm WPTV NASA SpaceX Crew-11 rocket launch in Florida: What time is liftoff near Cape Canaveral? Florida …
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Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations show
The energy needed for thunderstorms could come from an avalanche of electrons seeded by extraterrestrial cosmic rays, a new study claims. Scientists already knew that lightning is an electrical discharge between thunderclouds and Earth’s surface, but exactly how storm clouds obtain an electric field powerful enough to hurl a bolt has remained a mystery for centuries. Now, a new study …
Read More »“These X-Rays Just Exposed the Sun’s Fury” as Violent Solar Winds Threatening Earth’s Satellites Ignite Global Alarm Over Space Weather and Tech Infrastructure Collapse
IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Researchers have developed a new method using soft X-rays to measure the reconnection rate of solar wind energy into Earth’s magnetosphere. 🔬 The team used Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer to simulate coronal mass ejections and analyzed V-shaped X-ray emissions from a Moon-distance perspective. 🌎 This approach bridges the gap between local observations and global reconnection rates, offering …
Read More »Former members of Crew-9, Starliner-1 missions unite to fly to the Space Station – Spaceflight Now
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with Crew Dragon Endeavour, stands at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The rocket will launch the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now A group of astronauts and a cosmonaut originally slated to fly on other missions are finally getting their ticket to ride. The quartet, led …
Read More »“NASA Calls It the ‘Skyfall Maneuver’” as Plan to Drop 6 Mars Helicopters Mid-Air Divides Experts and Fuels Outrage Over Billion-Dollar Space Risks
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 Skyfall is an innovative mission by NASA and AeroVironment, Inc. to deploy six autonomous helicopters on Mars. 🛩️ Building on Ingenuity’s success, the mission aims to enhance Martian exploration with faster and cost-effective methods. 📡 The helicopters will act as aerial scouts, providing high-resolution images and data to prepare for future human landings. 🔍 Skyfall could …
Read More »Kate Rubins, 1st astronaut to sequence DNA in space, leaves NASA
NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and 300 days in space. Her last day at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston was Monday (July 28). In August 2016, while serving as a flight engineer on the space station’s 48th expedition crew, Rubins made …
Read More »James Webb Space Telescope finds black holes that waited patiently before devouring stars in dusty galaxies
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) an illustration of a black hole ripping apart an unfortunate star (Inset) the JWST which has just observed these events for the first time. | Credit: (Main) Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of …
Read More »James Webb Space Telescope finds giant, lonely exoplanets can build their own planetary friends without a parent star
Our parochial view of planets orbiting a central star — so familiar because it is the layout seen in the solar system — could be irrevocably shattered by new research that suggests giant, free-floating planets could form their own planetary systems. If true, that also means planetary systems may exist with no parent star. These rogue planetary systems would also …
Read More »SpaceX launch planned Wednesday at Vandenberg Space Force Base
SpaceX is planning another rocket launch to take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday, July 30. The Falcon 9 rocket launch is currently scheduled for 11:39 a.m. A livestream of the launch is expected to begin about five minutes before liftoff. The rocket will be delivering 19 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. About eight minutes after liftoff, SpaceX …
Read More »Hubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: ‘It was a lucky break’
Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope, and the find is thanks to a little serendipity — and a little help from the genius himself, Albert Einstein. Rogue, or “free-floating,” planets are worlds that don’t orbit a star. They earn their rogue status when they are ejected from their home systems …
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