[ad_1] NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this panorama of Mars in November 2020. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012 and just celebrated a milestone anniversary of 3,000 Martian days living the good scientific life on the Red Planet. A Martian day – called “ground” – is slightly … Read more
[ad_1] The International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday to 12 bottles of Bordeaux wine and hundreds of vine extracts that have spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science. Wine and vines – and thousands of pounds of other equipment and research, including mice – swarm aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule Wednesday … Read more
[ad_1] NASA and JAXA formalize gateway partnership for Artemis programNASA The time for NASA’s next big rocket has comeAxios NASA to launch Europa Clipper on commercial rocketExtremeTech NASA Stage Manager discusses hot fire testing of space launch systemNASA Marshall Space Flight Center NASA to fire huge SLS moon rocket for latest ‘Green Run’ testCNET View … Read more
[ad_1] This very wide and multiframe panorama was taken in October 2014 at Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona. The zodiacal light is on the left, with the northern Milky Way on the right. Z. Levay While we might think of space as a vast sea of darkness, all we have to do … Read more
[ad_1] An artist print shows galaxy ID2299 losing a gas tail after being formed in a galactic collision. ESO / M. Grain knives Astronomers can see a distant galaxy dying as it bleeds cold gas into space. Such a gas is essential for the formation of stars. Galaxies die when they can no longer do … Read more
[ad_1] Atmospheric carbon the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) will exceed a frightening threshold this year, exceeding 417 parts per million (ppm) – a 50% increase since the start of widespread industrial activity in the 18th century. The forecast comes from the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, which used data collected at the … Read more
[ad_1] Pieces of unwanted debris left by humans in low Earth orbit have become the equivalent of a “ new drifting plastic island ” in space, an expert has warned. Scientific models estimate that there are over 128 million space debris larger than 1mm and 34,000 larger than 10cm. These range from old rocket parts … Read more
[ad_1] Barely 670 million years after the Big Bang, the quasar J0313-1806 was born. It is the most distant black hole ever discovered. NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva A quasar has been discovered in a dark corner of space more than 13.03 billion light years away, and it contains a supermassive … Read more
[ad_1] Search box title How dark does the space get? If you step away from the city lights and look up, the sky between the stars looks really very dark. Above Earth’s atmosphere, outer space darkens even more, turning ink black. And yet even there the space is not absolutely black. The universe has a … Read more