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NASA is Testing a Coating to Help Astronauts and Their Equipment Shed Dangerous Lunar Dust NASA is developing an advanced new coating that could protect everything from spacecraft systems to astronauts from harmful lunar dust. The post NASA is Testing a Coating to Help Astronauts and Their Equipment Shed Dangerous Lunar Dust appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

What Voyager 2 Learned After Spending a Year in Interstellar Space Only two of humanity’s spacecraft have left the Solar System: NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 1 left the heliosphere behind in 2012, while Voyager 2 did the same on Nov. 5th, 2018. Now Voyager 2 has been in interstellar space for one year, and five new papers are presenting the scientific results from … Continue reading “What Voyager 2 Learned After Spending a Year in Interstellar Space” The post What Voyager 2 Learned After Spending a Year in Interstellar Space appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Weekly Space Hangout: November 6, 2019 – Tiera & Myron Fletcher, Engineers on NASA’s Space Launch System Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Nancy Atkinson ( @Nancy_A / @nancyatkinson_ut) Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) Veranika Klimovich ( @VeronikaSpace) This week we welcome Tiera and Myron Fletcher, Aerospace Engineers with Boeing working on NASA’s Space Launch System. Tiera is a Rocket Structural Analysis Engineer who graduated from MIT with a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering. … Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: November 6, 2019 – Tiera & Myron Fletcher, Engineers on NASA’s Space Launch System” The post Weekly Space Hangout: November 6, 2019 – Tiera & Myron Fletcher,Read More →

New Research Suggests that the Universe is a Sphere and Not Flat After All The universe is a seemingly endless sea filled with stars, galaxies, and nebulae. In it, we see patterns and constellations that have inspired stories throughout history. But there is one cosmic pattern we still don’t understand. A question that remains unanswered: What is the shape of the universe? We thought we knew, but new research … Continue reading “New Research Suggests that the Universe is a Sphere and Not Flat After All” The post New Research Suggests that the Universe is a Sphere and Not Flat After All appeared first onRead More →

It Seems Impossible, But Somehow This Planet Survived its Star’s Red Giant Phase Astronomers working with TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data have found a planet where it shouldn’t be: in the space recently filled by its host star when it was a red giant. TESS uses Asteroseismology to examine stars. It measures the tiny oscillations in a star that gives clues to its interior structure. These clues … Continue reading “It Seems Impossible, But Somehow This Planet Survived its Star’s Red Giant Phase” The post It Seems Impossible, But Somehow This Planet Survived its Star’s Red Giant Phase appeared first on Universe Today. UniverseRead More →

The First Stars Formed Very Quickly Based on a new study, it is possible that the first stars in our Universe formed about 1 billion years earlier than we thought. The post The First Stars Formed Very Quickly appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Boeing’s Starliner Performed its Abort Test Today. One Parachute Failed to Deploy For years, NASA has been working to restore domestic launch capability to the US and send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. A crucial part of this is the development of next-generation crew capsules that can carry crews and payloads to space. These include Lockheed Martin’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) and the Crew Space … Continue reading “Boeing’s Starliner Performed its Abort Test Today. One Parachute Failed to Deploy” The post Boeing’s Starliner Performed its Abort Test Today. One Parachute Failed to Deploy appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go toRead More →

NASA Has a New Method For Cooling Down Electronics Crammed Together in a Spacecraft Engineers at NASA Goddard have completed flight tests on their revolutionary new cooling system, which has the potential to lead to smaller electronics. The post NASA Has a New Method For Cooling Down Electronics Crammed Together in a Spacecraft appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Carnival of Space #635-636 This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #635-636. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry … Continue reading “Carnival of Space #635-636” The post Carnival of Space #635-636 appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Our Guide to the November 11th, 2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun One of the finest spectacles in astronomy is to witness the passage of one object in front of another. This can transpire as an eclipse, an occultation, or a rare event known as a planetary transit. We get a shot at seeing just such a singular event next Monday on November 11th, as a transit … Continue reading “Our Guide to the November 11th, 2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun” The post Our Guide to the November 11th, 2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun appeared first on Universe Today. UniverseRead More →

The Lowest Mass Black Hole has Been Found, only 3.3 Times the Mass of the Sun A team of astronomers recently discovered the smallest black hole to date, which indicates that there may be far more out there than we previously thought. The post The Lowest Mass Black Hole has Been Found, only 3.3 Times the Mass of the Sun appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Asteroid Hygiea is Round Enough That it Could Qualify as a Dwarf Planet, the Smallest in the Solar System Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed Hygeia and determined it could be the smallest dwarf planet to date! The post Asteroid Hygiea is Round Enough That it Could Qualify as a Dwarf Planet, the Smallest in the Solar System appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

NASA is Now Considering a Pluto Orbiter Mission NASA’s New Horizons mission taught us a lot about Pluto, the ice dwarf planet. But the spacecraft sped past Pluto so quickly, we only got high-resolution images of one side of the planet, the so-called “encounter side.” New Horizons gave us a big leap in understanding, but in a way, it asked more questions than … Continue reading “NASA is Now Considering a Pluto Orbiter Mission” The post NASA is Now Considering a Pluto Orbiter Mission appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Mars 2020 Stands Up on its Wheels For The First Time The Mars 2020 rover recently passed a milestone at NASA JPL, where it stood on its wheels and legs for the very first time. The post Mars 2020 Stands Up on its Wheels For The First Time appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Return to the Moon with Blue Origin’s Rockets and Lunar Lander Made Out of LEGO Indulge your inner man-child (or woman-child) with these LEGO versions of the Blue Origin Blue Moon lunar lander, New Glenn rocket, and launch tower. This new design is currently gathering supporters on the LEGO Ideas website. If it gets enough supporters, LEGO will review it and possibly build it. The kit is based around the … Continue reading “Return to the Moon with Blue Origin’s Rockets and Lunar Lander Made Out of LEGO” The post Return to the Moon with Blue Origin’s Rockets and Lunar Lander Made Out of LEGORead More →

This is the Machine Astronauts Trained on to Land on the Moon Faking the Moon landings was a huge undertaking. In order to fool the degenerate critical thinkers out there, NASA had to think of every detail. Right down to fake machines for the astronauts to train on. I mean, even the astronauts had to think it was real, or they’d ruin everything, amirite? Shortly after President … Continue reading “This is the Machine Astronauts Trained on to Land on the Moon” The post This is the Machine Astronauts Trained on to Land on the Moon appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go toRead More →

Clouds On Jupiter Rising Up Above the Surrounding Atmosphere Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter’s clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. The two bright spots in the right center of this image are much higher than the surrounding clouds. Jupiter’s atmosphere is a swirling, colourful, chaotic mix-up of currents and … Continue reading “Clouds On Jupiter Rising Up Above the Surrounding Atmosphere” The post Clouds On Jupiter Rising Up Above the Surrounding Atmosphere appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

New Telescope Instrument Will Watch the Sky with 5,000 Eyes Dark Energy is the mysterious force driving the expansion of the Universe. We don’t know what dark energy is, even though it makes up about 68% of the Universe. And the expansion is accelerating, which only adds to the mystery. A new instrument called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will study dark energy. It’s … Continue reading “New Telescope Instrument Will Watch the Sky with 5,000 Eyes” The post New Telescope Instrument Will Watch the Sky with 5,000 Eyes appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

NASA is Testing a Rover That Could Search For Water Ice on The Moon NASA has plans to send the VIPER rover to the South Pole of the Moon to look for water ice, in preparation for sending astronauts there in 2024. The post NASA is Testing a Rover That Could Search For Water Ice on The Moon appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to SourceRead More →

Weekly Space Hangout: October 30, 2019 – Evelyn MacDonald on Finding Earth-Like Planets Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Brian Koberlein (BrianKoberlein.com / @BrianKoberlein) Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck) Tonight we welcome Evelyn MacDonald to the show in a PRERECORDED INTERVIEW with Fraser during which she discusses her thesis-turned-published-journal-article, something which rarely occurs. Evelyn MacDonald is a recent Physics graduate from McGill University. For her thesis, … Continue reading “Weekly Space Hangout: October 30, 2019 – Evelyn MacDonald on Finding Earth-Like Planets” The post Weekly Space Hangout: October 30, 2019 – Evelyn MacDonald on Finding Earth-Like Planets appeared first on Universe Today. UniverseRead More →