NASA’s helicopter on Mars just keeps flying and flying0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 7, 2021
For NASA, taking some risk has paid off handsomely.
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Why science can’t resist the allure of Venus: new missions to Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 7, 2021
With a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus has been left alone by space agencies for a decade. Now we are about to learn more about its climate – and the chances of life on other planets
Enormous white dwarf deciphered with help of Hawaiʻi telescopes0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 6, 2021
Astronomers are revelling at the discovery of a white dwarf that is the largest ever seen. White dwarfs are the collapsed remnants of stars, and this latest find is roughly the size of the Moon and 1.35 times more massive than the Sun. Researchers at the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory made the discovery. To help characterize the dead star, astronomers turned to the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea and University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakalā, Maui.
Astronauts at China’s new space station conduct first spacewalk0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 6, 2021
Two astronauts work for seven hours outside Tiangong station, in first of two spacewalks planned for mission
Black holes imaged gobbling up neutron stars ‘like Pac Man’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 3, 2021
For the first time, astronomers have observed black holes gobbling up neutron stars “like Pac Man.”
CLAY DUG UP BY NASA MARS ROVER MAKES IT SEEM LIKE RED PLANET COULD’VE SUPPORTED LIFE0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 2, 2021
THE SAMPLES ARE AN INDICATION THAT MARS MAY HAVE HAD HOSPITABLE CONDITIONS FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS.
‘Killer’ asteroid headed our way! When to fear space rocks0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 2, 2021
On Asteroid Day, a reminder. The ones to worry about are almost never the ones in the alarmist headlines.
“Space is for everyone”: Europe’s Space Agency to hire first disabled astronaut0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 2, 2021
The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut and several hundred would-be para-astronauts have already applied for the role, ESA head Josef Aschbacher told Reuters on Friday.
ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 1, 2021
ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have detected the first visible counterpart to a gravitational wave source. These historic observations suggest that this unique object is the result of the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths of this kind of merger — long-predicted events called kilonovae — disperse heavy elements such as gold and platinum throughout the Universe. This discovery, published in several papers in the journal Nature and elsewhere, also provides the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are caused by mergers of neutron stars.
An atomic clock that could revolutionize space travel just passed its first test0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 1, 2021
The Deep Space Atomic Clock could help spacecraft reach distant destinations on their own
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