NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! SpaceX’s Crew-4 will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in April aboard a Dragon capsule named “Freedom.” NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren announced the name on Twitter on Wednesday. NASA ANNOUNCES PLANS TO DEVELOP SECOND ARTEMIS MOON LANDER “FREEDOM!! Crew-4 will fly to the International Space Station … Read more
A special kind of lettuce could help anyone headed to Mars stay healthy. Sciepro/Science Photo Library The year 2030 might be when humans finally take their first steps on Mars — per NASA’s timeline, that is. Elon Musk’s recent estimate falls one year earlier, in 2029. Regardless of when it happens, we know one thing … Read more
An artist’s interpretation of liquid water on the surface of the Europa pooling beneath chaos terrain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Salt water within the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could potentially help sustain alien life, according to a team of researchers led by … Read more
Small clip of the Thesan simulation. See video in article below. Named after a goddess of the dawn, the Thesan simulation of the first billion years helps explain how radiation shaped the early universe. It all started around 13.8 billion years ago with a big, cosmological “bang” that brought the universe suddenly and spectacularly into … Read more
Spontaneously generating reality is a messy affair. Our Big Bang, for example, unleashed a universe’s worth of energy and matter in an instant, then flung it omnidirectionally away at the speed of light as temperatures throughout the growing cosmos exceeded 1,000 trillion degrees Celsius in the first few nanoseconds of time’s existence. The following couple … Read more
Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a rare and mysterious space object, prompting a renewed push to discover its origin. Odd radio circles (ORCs) are gigantic rings of radio waves. Only five have ever been sighted, and never in such spectacular detail. The image of ORC J2103-6200, also called ORC1, was captured by the … Read more
Boa constrictors breathe with different sections of rib cage when constricting prey and digesting dinner. The later stages of pregnancy can make life difficult as the fetus presses against the diaphragm making it hard to breathe. But snakes that constrict their victims before swallowing them whole have to overcome the challenges of breathing while their … Read more
Enlarge † Astra’s LV0009 takes off from Kodiak Island, Alaska, on March 15. Welcome to Edition 4.36 of the Rocket Report! As I took last week off for Spring Break, there is quite a bit of news to get to this week, including positive steps forward for some US small launch companies and SpaceX reaching … Read more
An artist’s interpretation of liquid water on the surface of the Europa pooling beneath chaos terrain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Salt water within the icy shell of[{” attribute=””>Jupiter’s moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could potentially help sustain alien life, according to a team of researchers led by … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more† CNN † Nearly 50 years after it was collected, a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. It’s one of the last unopened samples … Read more