XRISM revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around a supermassive black hole and in a supernova remnant in unprecedented detail. Astronomers presented the first scientific results of the new X-ray telescope today, less than a year after the telescope’s launch.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
UTHealth Houston has partnered with The Ocean Corporation to expand its Space Medicine Training Fellowship program. This collaboration introduces an intensive two-week training that focuses on hyperbaric technologies and analog environments similar to those encountered by astronauts during space walks, also known as extravehicular activities (EVAs). The enhanced curriculum aims to provide

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) announced at the World Space Business Week (WSBW) conference in Paris that it has entered into an agreement with Neuraspace to boost its LizzieSat constellation operations. Neuraspace will offer Space Traffic Management (STM) and Launch and Early Operations (LEOP) support, enhancing Sidus Space's capabilities in managing its satellite constellation. "This agreeme

London, UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
A newly released catalogue containing data from millions of distant galaxies, providing distance measurements with an unparalleled level of precision, has been made available today. This large-scale effort was made possible by The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration involving 14 institutions across six countries, including the University of Portsmou

Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io - the most volcanically active location in the solar system - Cornell astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating. "Tidal heating plays an important role in the heating and orbital evolution of celestial bodies," said Alex Hayes '03, M.Eng. '04, the Jennifer and Albe

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
Humankind is gearing up for its return to the Moon. Set for September 2025, NASA's Artemis II will be the first crewed test flight in the Artemis program, paving the way for the Artemis III lunar landing, planned for 2026. On board the Orion spacecraft, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will orbit the Moon several times, testing key

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
A new study led by Postdoctoral Researcher Jiawei Gao from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS), reveals how Mars' magnetic field responds to the influence of solar winds. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global dipolar magnetic field but possesses localized crustal magnetic fields. The planet's interaction with the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) carried b

Dubai (AFP) Sept 19, 2024
Tech billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink has launched in Yemen, provoking the anger of Iran-backed Huthi rebels in the country shattered by civil war. The company - run by the world's richest person - announced its arrival in Yemen, one of the world's least developed countries, in a post on social media platform X which is also owned by the US-based tycoon. Star

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
On Thursday, the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station demonstrated several advanced technologies, including an artificial intelligence assistant and a cutting-edge ultra-high-resolution camera. Along with these tech advancements, the crew conducted medical scans, prepped a spacecraft for departure, and worked on life support maintenance. NASA Flight Engineers Mike Barr

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2024
Sierra Space, a prominent player in commercial space ventures and defense technologies, has announced the successful testing of its Carbothermal Oxygen Production Reactor. This proprietary system, tested in NASA's Johnson Space Center thermal vacuum chamber, marks the first instance of oxygen being extracted from simulated lunar soil in a lunar-like environment using a standalone automated syste