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Astronomers are marveling at a distant galaxy surrounded by two giant, intersecting rings of radio light in space, each about 300,000 light-years wide. The discovery, made by volunteers in the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory citizen-science program in Mumbai, is what’s known as — and we’re not kidding — an “Odd Radio Circle.” The rings both sit within an even bigger radio …

If an astronaut were to step outside a spacecraft, the Moon, or Mars without a spacesuit, the outcome would be immediate and fatal. In the vacuum of space, the lack of air pressure would cause blood and bodily fluids to boil, while suffocation would follow within seconds. Such scenarios, though rare, highlight the absolute necessity of spacesuit integrity during all …

Have you ever noticed that Helldivers 2 takes up a lot more room on PC than it does on either Xbox Series X|S or PlayStation 5? At 150GB, the game is roughly three times bigger on PC than on consoles. According to Arrowhead game studio deputy technical director Brendan Armstrong, the reason why is that Helldivers 2 is still catering …

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the opportunity to predict that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades,” the Financial Times reports. Speaking with John Elkann, a scion of Italy’s Agnelli dynasty, Bezos, who also founded rocket company Blue Origin, …

Enabling & Support 04/10/2025 2385 views 39 likes The European Space Agency (ESA) has expanded its capability to communicate with scientific, exploration and space safety missions across our Solar System with the inauguration of a new 35-m diameter deep space antenna – the fourth for Estrack, ESA’s deep space tracking network. Located in New Norcia, about 115 km north of …

Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer, the more we learn – but each new discovery stirs up a plethora of new puzzles to solve, like a swarm of fascinating science bees. Meanwhile, some burning questions have persisted across decades, resisting our best attempts to solve them. Here’s a …

A new kind of delivery system is being set up in low Earth orbit. Inversion Space, a relatively small space startup founded in 2021, is prepping its space-based delivery vehicle for flight. The reusable spacecraft is designed to drop off cargo from space to Earth on a tight schedule, building a constellation of on-demand vehicles parked in orbit. This week, …

The Expedition 73 crew continued their science research and maintenance work aboard the International Space Station this week, despite the start of a U.S. government shutdown back on Earth. Orbital observation Hello from space! “Today was a busy day as well, but I was able to take some photos in between workouts,” wrote Kimiya Yui on social media on Thursday …

China, on the other hand, frequently abandons upper stages in orbit. China launched 21 of the 26 hazardous new rocket bodies over the last 21 months, each averaging more than 4 metric tons (8,800 pounds). Two more came from US launchers, one from Russia, one from India, and one from Iran. This trend is likely to continue as China steps …

It was a mess. Congress did not provide NASA the funding it needed, and the rocket and spacecraft programs quickly ran behind schedule. At one point, to pay for surging Constellation costs, NASA absurdly mulled canceling the just-completed International Space Station. By the end of the first decade of the 2000s, two things were clear: NASA was going nowhere fast, …