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1st female ISS program manager looks ahead to new spaceships, space stations (exclusive)

Sun, 04/14/2024 - 10:54am
NASA's Dana Weigel has held leadership positions at the agency for 20 years. Now leading the ISS program, she highlighted the outpost's increasingly commercial focus.
Categories: Astronomy

This little robot can hop in zero-gravity to explore asteroids

Sun, 04/14/2024 - 6:00am
A three-legged robot named SpaceHopper could help combat challenges of exploring low-gravity environments, such as asteroids or moons.
Categories: Astronomy

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 106 — Space Potpourri!

Sat, 04/13/2024 - 10:32am
On Episode 106 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq take you on a tour of the coolest space places on Earth.
Categories: Astronomy

Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects

Sat, 04/13/2024 - 10:00am
Don't rule out primordial black holes as dark matter suspects just yet! Particle-sized black holes may resist evaporation, surviving long enough to account for the universe's most mysterious stuff.
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'You could feel the energy and wonder': Despite clouds, totality wows crowds during solar eclipse in Syracuse

Sat, 04/13/2024 - 9:00am
The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York's Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology into darkness for 90 seconds, creating a wondrous and memorable totality.
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In a virtual reality universe, upcoming 'JUICE' mission flies by Jupiter's moon Callisto

Sat, 04/13/2024 - 8:00am
To test its autonomous software, the JUICE mission team pretended to fly the spacecraft past Jupiter's fourth moon, and passed the exam with flying colors.
Categories: Astronomy

Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft starts testing ahead of moon mission with astronauts in 2025 (video)

Sat, 04/13/2024 - 8:00am
The Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft began testing on April 10 in an altitude chamber at NASA. The spacecraft will bring four astronauts around the moon no earlier than 2025.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX Starship will be 500 feet tall to prepare for Mars missions, Elon Musk says (video)

Sat, 04/13/2024 - 6:00am
Just weeks after Starship first reached orbital speed during a spaceflight in March, SpaceX founder Elon Musk outlined what the company wants to do with future spacecraft for Mars missions.
Categories: Astronomy