Russia Promises It Won’t Leave US Astronaut Stranded On ISS
Following a series of weird and ambiguous threats in recent weeks regarding the International Space Station (ISS) and ties with NASA, the Russian space agency…
Astronomy
Watch Chris Hadfield Gleefully Test Drive a Lunar Rover through Death Valley
Chris Hadfield is reliving all of our wildest astronaut dreams by driving a full-scale lunar rover across Death Valley in preparation for the rover’s future…
Orbits around Supermassive Black Holes Might Be Like a Giant Game of Billiards
There is a supermassive black hole at the heart of practically every galaxy, weighing millions, if not billions, of times the mass of our Sun.…
Kepler-69c – a Super-Earth Extrasolar Planet
Kepler-69c is a super-Earth exoplanet in the habitable zone of a G-type star. It’s a verified super-Earth extrasolar planet, most likely rocky, circling the Sun-like…
Russian Space Agency Refuses To Launch OneWeb Satellite Until Its Demands Are Met
Roscosmos has reported that the OneWeb satellites, which are set to launch this Friday, are being held, hostage. The head of the Russian Space Agency,…
Secret to A Neutron Star’s Variation Discovered Using Nuisance Light
We deploy telescopes in space to avoid interference from the atmosphere and other radiation sources, but it isn’t always enough. The NuSTAR X-Ray telescope has…
Russia Releases Strange, Vaguely Threatening Video of the ISS Being Dismantled
The Russian state-run news agency Novosti has released a weird and ominous video depicting the Russian component of the International Space Station (ISS) breaking off…
Russia Announces It Will No Longer Take Part in Joint Experiments on the ISS
In reaction to sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian space agency has declared that it would no longer collaborate with…
Perseverance Has a Pebble in Its Shoe
Few things are more aggravating than a stone stuck in your shoe that refuses to move. As the rover Perseverance discovered, this incredibly Earthly issue…
NASA Has Just Opened a Container of Potential Lunar Gasses Sealed For 50 Years
For the last 50 years, geologists have been slicing slivers from the lunar rocks of the Apollo missions for study, generating several significant discoveries in…
NASA Criticized For Removing Pronouns from Goddard Employees’ Virtual IDs
Employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, one of the agency’s key research centers, have complained on social media that their option to display pronouns…
Largest Ever Molecule in a Planet Forming Disk Has Been Discovered
A nine-atom organic molecule has been discovered inside a young star’s planet-forming disk. The material is dimethyl ether, the biggest molecule ever discovered in such…
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