Dark matter, the cosmic choreographer, evades detection in a thrilling celestial caper. Clues from galactic dances to particle parties drive scientists' cosmic hunt. Armed with tech wizardry, they're determined to unmask this star of the show. The universe's ultimate mystery.
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On June 29th, SpaceX successfully completed their 35th launch in a 33-week period sending their SES-22 communications satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit. We now end the first half of 2022 with 27 orbital launches featuring the SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.
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Well, the day is here. We all had a good, amazed laugh watching Boston Dynamics create little robot dogs and oddly human-shaped mechanical armatures that could do full gymnastics routines.
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Let’s take a few moments today to learn about Orbital Reef, a planned mixed-use space station in low Earth orbit for commerce, research, and tourism to be deployed by the end of this decade.
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Blue Origin has announced its New Glenn orbital reusable launch vehicle has been selected for 12 more launches, with options for up to 15 additional launches to deploy Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite constellation.
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The recent Amazon re:MARS 2022 Event was an inspiring tumult of technological innovation and we had the joy of meeting some new friends over at the space tech start-up, Lunar Outpost.
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With positioning and activation of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) nearly complete, 15 of its 17 observing modes now working, project officials and NASA leadership are set to release the first set of “early release observation images” including the deepest ever image of our galaxy on July 12th, 2022.
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To start, It is the size of a backpack. Amazon has created a Cloud storage and computing platform system, Snowcone, that can easily travel aboard spacecraft to streamline data services without having to beam anything down to the Earth. And these systems are small enough and light enough to fit into a backpack! We have space wi-fi a la NASA's Deep Space Network and soon we will have space Cloud storage.
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At the risk of sounding like a hype beast, this is a BIG year in space tech and we are practically giddy with anticipation for this year’s SOE’22 - Space, Ocean and Earth Insights workshop. The day-long workshop is a coming-together of renowned scientists to share state-of-art research across several fields of knowledge feeding into Space Exploration: Space Medicine, Geo-Robotics, Aeronomy, Space-Earth-Sea Interactions, Space Resources, Remote Sensing and more.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has recently unveiled an ultra-rare black hole after six years of painstaking research. The black hole is seemingly traveling through interstellar space and has some truly unique features which make this object worth paying attention to.
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When we think of frost, images of glittering snow blanketing the world come to mind but Mars, as always, tends to do things a little bit differently. In recent images captured by NASA’s Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera, layers of frost can be seen in the early hours of the morning on the planet’s surface. The frost seems to reflect a rainbow of colors almost reminiscent of an oil spoil. This is due to the largely carbon dioxide makeup of the frost, think dry ice, which casts a blueish-white color that also mingles with reflecting light rays. Dazzling, isn’t it?
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It’s no secret that the global space exploration community has an issue on its hands. The low orbit space around Earth is becoming crowded. Between the proliferation of small-scale satellites, massive constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink and an ever-growing mass collection of floating space junk, launching and operating projects into low-orbit is becoming more and more challenging to even just find space.
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It’s not out of the ordinary to see a planet or two among the stars. But starting in the early hours of June 24, you could see five planets known as “the Parade of Planets”: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn all in alignment in the sky! This event will be the first time in over 18 years that the planets will be aligned in their natural order from the Sun. So set your alarm to get up extra early and grab a blanket so you can view this phenomenon because this won’t happen again until 2040.
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Whenever you need to be humbled, look no further than the Hubble Space Telescope image archives because images like these let us know how truly small we are in this wondrous universe.
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Astronomers have recently observed a dead star which appears to be viciously consuming material surrounding it in a cosmic cannibalization of planetary ingredients. This phenomenon has left scientists both impressed and intrigued as this is the first recorded instance of such an action taking place.
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Last month, Boeing made history during its Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT) mission by sending its Reusable CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft (co-developed with NASA) into space to dock with the International Space Station’s (ISS) Orbital Lab. The intent of this type of craft is to accommodate up to seven passengers, or a mix of crew and cargo, for missions to low-Earth orbit and even carry up to four NASA-sponsored crew members for time-critical scientific research aboard the ISS.
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Axiom Space announced that it has been awarded the NASA Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) Contract to build the space agency’s next generation astronaut spacesuits that may be used for low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the Artemis lunar missions.
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NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has completed its process of collecting a nearly 1kg sample from the armored asteroid, 101955 Bennu, also simply known as Bennu.
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To start, yes that is a Mean Girls reference. You’re welcome. NASA has officially taken one step close to completing its iconic Europa Clipper Spacecraft, the planned craft which will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa in orbit to investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a special friend on its journey across the surface of Mars, a lone rock which has nestled itself in the rover’s front left wheel. Scientists noticed the rock in images back in February and have humorously enjoyed its presence coming to consider the rock a pet of sorts.
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On June 9th NASA held a media teleconference to announce a new commissioned study team which will investigate unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). The aim of the study is to examine instances of unidentified objects or occurrences in the sky and attempt to provide a scientific explanation for their existence. So… it kind of seems like the team is definitely investigating the idea of alien phenomenon taking place in the skies. After the last two years of the pandemic and a lot of existential dread, maybe we leave the alien chasing alone?
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Pluto was removed as a planet but new research from the Kuiper Belt, a massive icy debris disc just outside of our solar system, has unveiled evidence that a large planet far bigger than Pluto may be lurking right on the edge of the belt.
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New kids on the block, AstroForge, have come forward to announce their upcoming mission to successfully pioneer asteroid mining endeavors for the first time ever.
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) GAIA space telescope, launched in 2013, is on course to create the most precise map of our galaxy in hopes of giving scientists some much-needed clues as to the origin and evolution of the stars. Recently, it has been announced that much of the recorded data from this mission will now become available to the public for viewing or study on June 13th, 2022.
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Aboard the International Space Station (ISS) sits NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, a small chamber capable of supercooling gas bubbles to a millionth of a degree above what is known to be the lowest temperature possible, absolute zero. The aim of this chamber is to conduct research into quantum physics by transitioning gas particles into what is known as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), atoms that scientists can use to see quantum effects play out at large scales. "Nothing that we know of in nature gets as cold as the atomic gasses produced in Cold Atom Lab", said David Aveline,a member of the Cold Atom Lab science team.
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European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shared a stunning view of the Grand Canyon on social media last week. The image shows wispy clouds framing the snaking, branching lines of the canyon against a brown and red landscape.
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NASA scientists have recently captured a Martian “selfie” using the InSight Mars lander. Slowly powering down in the coming weeks, the remote crew wanted to give the lander a proper send off with a cute picture memorializing its time on Mars.
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A recent image captured by NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars seems to clearly show a carved “door” in a protruding rock face on the surface. Avid conspiracy theorists are abuzz, theorizing this to be possible proof of alien life.
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Inside the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats above Earth in a new photo issued from the International Space Station (ISS).
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On Friday, May 27, 2022, the NASA’s Expedition 67 crew continued its ongoing human research by taking ultrasound eye exams and blood flow measurements in the brain aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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NASA has just released a five-hour long playlist of sounds captured on the surface of Mars by its Perseverance rover. The audio files provide essential insight into how sound waves travel across the surface as well as help the science team determine the kinds of atmospheric interference present on the planet. For those of us here on Earth, this is an unprecedented opportunity to hear what Mars itself sounds like so head on over to NASA’s playlist to have a listen!
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A recent image exposure taken by ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft on March 30th, 2022 has just been released from when the spacecraft approached its closest distance to the Sun yet.
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Images from Mars which feature an outcropping of rocks has inspired conspiracy-minded people across the Internet to claim that rodents may be living on the surface.
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We’ve all seen movies about asteroids slamming into Earth. Generals sitting around tables in clandestine military rooms watching LED displays of the object moving towards our planet. Loud orchestral music playing out the tense atmosphere. But what does tracking a potentially deadly asteroid really look like?
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New evidence which hints that monster black holes may have destroyed star formation in their galaxies has been unveiled in a recent study which looks backwards 12.5 billion years into our early universe.
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NASA is set to unveil a look at two exoplanets that closely resemble the Earth which have been captured by the famous James Webb Telescope.
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