Adam OliverSpace Astronomers spot never-before-seen gravitational wave source from binary white dwarf stars space.com - Chelsea Gohd Astronomers have detected two stellar corpses whirling around each other, and they might be producing gravitational waves. White dwarf stars are what …
Adam OliverAstronomy NASA's new Jupiter image is stunning Mashable - Mark KaufmanSome 484 million miles from coronavirus-beleaguered Earth lies the gas giant Jupiter, and its stormy, magnificent atmosphere. One of the latest images NASA's Juno spacecraft sent back to Earth shows a
Adam OliverTechnology NASA details how it plans to establish a sustained human presence on the Moon – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonNASA’s Artemis program aims to bring humans back to the Moon, with the goal of staying there for good in the interest of pursuing additional science and exploration missions, including to Mars. But how
Adam OliverJames Webb Space Telescope Watch NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unfold its golden mirror for the 1st time (video) space.com - Chelsea Gohd NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has fully deployed its primary mirror for the first time, marking another milestone on …
Adam OliverAsteroids OK, WTF is NASA’s Humanity-Saving Ion Engine? VICE - Becky FerreiraHumans are currently grappling with numerous emerging threats on our planet, ranging from an ongoing pandemic to the long-term risks of climate change. But we are also vulnerable to forces beyond Earth,
Adam OliverNASA NASA's Mars Copter Spins Blades for Last Time Before Launch | Digital Trends Digital Trends - Trevor Mogg NASA is making the final preparations for its Mars 2020 mission, set for launch in July. The space agency recently reported the completion of …
Adam OliverplaySpaceX SpaceX prints out a preview of super-sized Starship’s capabilities in users guide geekwire.com - Alan Boyle SpaceX provided details about the expected capabilities of its fully reusable Starship super-heavy-lift launch system in a payload users guide that …
Adam OliverSpace US military may start moving towards launching fleets of tiny satellites space.com - Elizabeth Howell With much of the commercial space industry focused on putting small satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO), how quickly will the U.S. military …
Adam OliverSpace Exploration SpaceX’s first crewed operational mission just doubled its passengers bgr.com - Mike Wehner • SpaceX will launch four NASA astronauts and one astronaut from Japan’s JAXA space agency on its first operational crewed mission to the International …
Adam Oliver NASA call for astronauts draws 12,000 spaceflight hopefuls Associated Press - By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace WriterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Who wants to be an astronaut? More than 12,000 people do, resulting in NASA's second-largest group of astronaut hopefuls. NASA said Wednesday that Americans from all 50 states,
Adam OliverTelescopes Celestron Astro Fi 130 telescope: Full review space.com - Gemma Lavender The Celestron Astro Fi series of telescopes are relatively new scopes on the market. Suitable for beginners keen on touring the night sky but are …
Adam OliverHistory These Brothers Were Eavesdropping on Space Transmissions When They Heard Cries for Help VICE - Julian MorgansThis article originally appeared on VICE AU. This article accompanies the latest episode of Extremes, which is a VICE podcast exclusive to Spotify. Listen to the rest of the show here The year was 1957
Adam OliverVoyager 2 A new look at Voyager’s Uranus flyby reveals something unusual about the planet Inverse - Passant Rabie Over 30 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew over the hot, dense world of Uranus, getting as close as 50,600 miles to the planet’s cloud …
Adam OliverPhysics Just Three Orbiting Black Holes Can Break Time-Reversal Symmetry, Physicists Find ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr Most of the laws of physics don't care which direction time is travelling. Forwards, backwards… either way, the laws work exactly the same. Newtonian …
Adam OliverSpace Europe stalls science on 4 space missions due to coronavirus pandemic space.com - Chelsea Gohd As concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic continue to grow, the European Space Agency (ESA) is scaling back on-site personnel and hitting …
Adam OliverPeggy Whitson 4 astronauts reveal their secrets to surviving months of isolation with other people Business Insider - Dave MosherSpace may be the final frontier, but living off of Earth can be extremely challenging. Due to a long and fussy list of survival needs, plus the expense of traveling to and from orbit, residing and working
Adam OliverNatural History Mercury’s Messy Surface May Have Once Had Crucial Ingredients for Life smithsonianmag.com - Katherine J. Wu In recent years, scientists started scouring the skies for hints of life on worlds far outside our solar system. But some of the most tantalizing—and …
Adam OliverScience Astronauts quarantined ahead of journey to International Space Station Reuters - By Joey RouletteWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut were spending their final weeks on Earth in quarantine before they are scheduled to blast off on April 9 for the International Space for
Adam OliverTravel Take a Virtual Field Trip With These Videos and Livestreams From the Kennedy Space Center Travel + Leisure - Andrea RomanoAs schools close around the country, museums, libraries, and other institutions are stepping up to help provide educational activities to everyone who’d stuck at home to help slow the spread of coronavirus
Adam OliverThe Future A large asteroid ignored social distancing norms over the weekend, made a close pass by Earth CNET - Eric Mack An asteroid as wide as a football field passed through the neighborhood.
Adam OliverSpace Heads up! Chinese rocket debris crashes back to Earth after recent launch space.com - Andrew Jones Rocket debris has been discovered downrange from a recent rocket launch from Xichang in southwest China. China successfully launched a Long March 3B …
Adam OliverLong-form Journalism Stuck in a cramped space? This astronaut has some advice. National Geographic - Michael GreshkoChris Cassidy is about to spend six months on the ISS. He knows a thing or two about living in a small space. Chris Cassidy is going into quarantine—but for a NASA astronaut preparing to launch to the
Adam OliverAstronomy Why approaching comet ATLAS is so bright (and how you can see it) Mother Nature Network - Michael d'Estries A newly discovered comet named ATLAS is on track to become one of the brightest comets to grace our night skies since Hale-Bopp in 1997. Officially …
Adam OliverScience Remember When Japan Blasted an Asteroid? Here’s What We Learned The New York Times - Kenneth ChangIn April last year, a Japanese spacecraft launched a strike from above on an asteroid. Japan’s space agency was not declaring war. The bombardment was part of the work of Hayabusa2, a robotic space probe
Adam OliverGeek Scientists Find a Superconductor in Bits of Meteorite Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Scientists have detected trace amounts of superconducting material inside one of the world’s largest meteorites, according to a new …
Adam OliverSpace Exploration Meet The Stolen Russian Space Shuttle that Flew Only Once nationalinterest.org - Caleb Larson The Soviet Union wanted their own space shuttle — and eventually built something eerily reminiscent of NASA’s space shuttle. Its performance was …
Adam OliverComets It Looks Like That Interstellar Comet Came All The Way to The Solar System to Die ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr A comet that entered our Solar System from interstellar space may not make it out again. As it zooms away from the Sun, 2I/Borisov has been spotted …
Adam OliverSpace Scientists trace famed 1987 supernova to weird blue supergiant star space.com - Chelsea Gohd In 1987, astronomers observed an incredible star explosion in a galaxy not too far away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Now, researchers suggest that …
Adam OliverDark Matter Astronomers Rule Out A Theory Of Everything Forbes - Brian KoberleinAs astronomers struggle to understand dark matter, they keep pushing up against a contradiction of evidence. While there is a great deal of indirect evidence for dark matter within galaxies and galactic
