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From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the most distant galaxy found so far, a fuzzy blob of red light that we see as it existed just 290 million years after […]
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When it comes to natural disasters, most are impossible to predict more than a few months or even days ahead of time – you can’t say “an earthquake is going to hit in two years, let’s prepare”. However, one of the few for which we can be truly ready is an asteroid strike. While nobody […]
Historically, a GOP president means a slightly higher NASA budget request. Here are our biggest takeaways from election night—and what they mean for space policy in D.C. Source link
Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s atmosphere at 60,000 kilometres per hour and hammer into the ground, vaporising anything it touches. With millions of asteroids hurtling through the […]
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The world’s first wooden satellite has been launched into space as part of study on using timber to help reduce the creation of space junk. Scientists at Kyoto University expect the wooden material to burn up when the device re-enters the atmosphere – potentially providing a way to avoid generating metal particles when a retired […]
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, with three stages and solid motors strapped onto its sides. Since then, China has been revising the design of this rocket, named Long March 9, […]
new video loaded: Japan Launches World’s First Wooden Satellite transcript Back transcript Japan Launches World’s First Wooden Satellite The cube-shaped satellite was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket late Monday to test if timber will work as a more sustainable material in space. 3, 2, 1. … and liftoff. Recent episodes in Science Show more videos […]