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Illustration of an expeditionary crew on Mars setting up drilling gear in a quest to use ice for sustaining a human presence on the Red Planet. Long space missions, like the trek to Mars, have measurable effects on the human brain, the implications of which remain unclear. (Image credit: NASA) Space travel is incredibly demanding […]

The Sombrero Galaxy, imaged by JWST’s MIRI instrument. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope’s brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise — and reveals clumps of dust in a mottled outer ring. The Sombrero galaxy is so named because,

An illustration of NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft soaring in the skies of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch yet another high-profile NASA science mission. The agency announced today (Nov. 25) that it has picked the Falcon Heavy to loft Dragonfly, a $3.35 billion mission that

Alien: Earth | Teaser – Reflections | FX – YouTube Watch On Next summer might seem like a faraway destination, especially when anxiously awaiting the “Alien” franchise’s first foray into episodic television with “Alien: Earth.” But unless you own a working time machine or can somehow magically rework the Gregorian calendar, you’ve got no choice

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Esrange has been launching sounding rockets for nearly 60 years, including the Maxus 4 suborbital microgravity mission in 2001. (Image credit: ESA/ESRANGE/Lars Thulin) A suborbital rocket is set to help scientists take the next step in various realms of research with a launch from northern Sweden. The launch window for the SubOrbital Express-4 mission —

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast this morning (Nov. 21), continuing a very busy stretch for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:07 a.m. EST (1607 GMT), the beginning of a nearly four-hour-long window. The

Six instances of the same quasar in one JWST image indicating the discovery of the first Einstein zig-zag. (Image credit: Dux et al . 2024) Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first “Einstein zig-zag,” an image of one quasar repeated six times in a single image. The arrangement was created thanks

“Starship launch from ISS. We happened to be overhead!” (Image credit: NASA / Don Pettit) The largest rocket ever built launched on its sixth test flight earlier this week, wowing spectators on the ground — and even some in space. SpaceX’s monstrous, 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket launched Tuesday evening (Nov. 19), lifting off from

The active galaxy Centaurus A, with jets emanating from the central black hole. (Image credit: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray)) Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main difference between black holes is mass: some weigh about as much