Two Chinese astronauts just secured a spot in spaceflight history. Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China’s three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, spent more than nine hours spacewalking outside the Tiangong space station from late Monday night (Dec. 16) through Tuesday morning (Dec. 17), according to officials with China’s Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO). That […]
A Chinese Long March 5B rocket launches the first 10 satellites for the Guowang broadband megaconstellation on Dec. 16, 2024. (Image credit: Chinese Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology) China has started building its second enormous satellite-internet constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO). A Long March 5B rocket lifted off from Wenchang Space Launch Center on
(Image credit: Disney Plus) Jump to: What happened on At Achrann? Did Neel change the future of the planet? Is SM-33’s former captain At Attin’s mysterious Supervisor? Skeleton Crew continues to be the rare sort of on-screen Star Wars that’s content with just doing its own thing. Somehow, we’re already at the halfway point of
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The sun is far from quiet. Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an ‘extremely rare’ farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field. According to NASA’s Space Weather Database of Notifications, Knowledge, Information (DONKI), the ER (‘extremely rare’) CME clocked in with an estimated speed of around 1,964
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A galaxy sealed within a literal bubble. Is the Milky Way’s position in a supervoid responsible for the Hubble tension (Image credit: Robert Lea) New research suggests that a troubling disparity in the rate of expansion of the universe, known as the Hubble constant, may arise from the fact Earth sits in a vast underdense
A waning gibbous moon. (Image credit: NASA) The moon may have received a volcanic facelift, making it more than 100 million years older than rocks collected from its surface might suggest, a new study finds. There are a number of reasons to suspect the moon is older. For instance, there are rare lunar zircon minerals
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(Image credit: Future/Walmart) While the Imperial Probe Droid may have made only a brief but menacing appearance in The Empire Strikes Back, it is still one of Star Wars’ most iconic droids. It has been impressively recreated in this 683-piece Lego set which is currently on sale at a reduced price. The best price we
(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast) Despite abundant videos focusing on Exodus’ alien species and uncharted worlds, it’s been a while since the last time we got a proper look at the game. Fortunately, studio Archetype Entertainment and publisher Wizards of the Coast are ready to start showing off meatier chunks of gameplay, and the
An illustration of Trappist-1 b shortly before it passes behind the cool, red dwarf star, Trappist-1. Such stars are known for their activity with large starspots and eruptions. Trappist-1 b may experience intense volcanism. (Image credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA)) The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick
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Jared Isaacman, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for NASA chief, has commanded two space missions. (Image credit: Polaris Program / John Kraus) U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire, philanthropist and private astronaut to lead NASA. What do we know about the potential next administrator of America’s space agency? Isaacman, born in Union,
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