🇨🇳T-25 minutes until the launch of Shenzhou 17
T-25 minutes until the launch of Shenzhou 17, launching three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station....
🇮🇳 T-45 minutes until the launch of the Gaganyaan TV-D1 In-flight Abort Test!
T-45 minutes until the launch of the Gaganyaan TV-D1 In-flight Abort Test!...
This startup [SpaceBorn United] wants to find out if humans can have babies in space ( www.technologyreview.com )
SpaceBorn United wants to conduct an IVF experiment in Earth’s orbit to pave the way for long-term space missions.
‘Streets on the moon’: lunar dust could be ‘melted’ to make solid roads ( www.theguardian.com )
Perseverance found features resembling reef-like structures ( www.youtube.com )
Mars Guy is Arizona State University associate research professor Dr. Steve Ruff, a Mars geologist with decades of experience exploring the red planet. This channel follows the exploration of Jezero crater by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter, presenting science, engineering, and the search for life on Mars using a...
It's time to start worrying about space junk around the moon, too ( phys.org )
Hubble observes mysterious bright explosion called The Finch | Digital Trends ( www.digitaltrends.com )
Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says ( apnews.com )
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NASA got its first asteroid sample — with help from Queen guitarist Brian May ( www.washingtonpost.com )
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Discovery of ‘Jumbos’ may herald new astronomical category ( www.theguardian.com )
Dozens of planet-sized objects have been discovered in the Orion Nebula via observations that could herald the existence of a new astronomical category....
Launch Roundup: Rocket Lab fails during “We Will Never Desert You” launch; SpaceX launches booster for 17th time ( www.nasaspaceflight.com )
Signs of life? Why astronomers are excited about carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world ( theconversation.com )
A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos ( www.wired.com )
‘Significant’ space study offers hope for bone disease treatment ( globalnews.ca )
The Indigenous rocketeer ( www.nature.com )
Nicole McGaa combined Indigenous knowledge with engineering to build a rocket for the First Nations Launch competition.
Starship Super Heavy Static Fire ( www.youtube.com )
Static fire starts at 2:23.
Trans-Atlantic joint venture aims to build new “international” space station ( arstechnica.com )
Voyager Space, one of several US companies formulating concepts for new commercial space stations, has established a joint venture with Airbus to co-develop an Earth-orbiting research outpost called Starlab....
Ryugu asteroid samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed ( arstechnica.com )
When JAXA’s Hayabusa-1 spacecraft delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in late 2020, anticipation was high. What could the space rock possibly be waiting to tell us?...
Sun Launches Spectacular Coronal Mass Ejection in 4K 60fps ( www.youtube.com )
“On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth’s magnetic...
The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion ( arstechnica.com )
Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter....
For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon ( arstechnica.com )
NASA's Perseverance rover finds diverse organic material in ancient Martian lake basin ( www.techspot.com )
Chinese plan to land on the Moon by 2030 ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb ( arstechnica.com )
In-space manufacturing startup aces pharma experiment in orbit ( arstechnica.com )
The co-founder of California-based startup Varda Space Industries says his company’s first space mission—a miniature lab that has grown crystals of the drug ritonavir in orbit—is on track to end in the coming weeks with a first-of-its-kind re-entry and landing in Utah....
