Starry Chandelier Cluster – NASA

What’s it like to live near the world’s largest steerable radio telescope? Planetary Society members are invited to an exclusive virtual screening of “Small Town Universe,” an award-winning documentary about life in the “quiet zone” around the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. A Q&A with director Katie Dellamaggiore and a special guest will follow…

Astronomers thought JWST might find signs of life. Now they have a new plan. Despite astronomers’ hopes, the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations haven’t uncovered any exoplanets with Earth-like conditions or signs of life. The latest article from Science Editor Asa Stahl explores why this may be, and what’s next in the hunt for life beyond our…

Image: Blue Origin During a pre-launch static fire, a fully stacked rocket for Blue Origin’s fourth New Glenn rocket suffered a failure, leading to its destruction and damage to the launch pad’s infrastructure. The explosion took place at LC-36, Blue Origin‘s New Glenn launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Blue Origin’s goal was…

  Introduction: In this article, I’ll explore the intricate challenges that spacecraft encounter during reentry in manned space missions. The journey back to Earth’s surface marks a pivotal phase, demanding meticulous engineering and navigation to ensure the safety of astronauts and the integrity of the spacecraft. As a spacecraft reenters the Earth’s atmosphere, it faces…

Image: Blue Origin Blue Origin suffered a major blow last month when its New Glenn rocket experienced a catastrophic anomaly during a static fire test at Launch Complex 36 on Florida’s Space Coast. The test was being conducted without its mission payload attached – a batch of Amazon LEO internet satellites that had been scheduled…

Week of January 18 The Orion spacecraft, consisting of the crew module, crew module adapter, and service module, that will fly four astronauts to the Moon on the Artemis II mission in the spring of 2025 is considerably advanced over its Artemis I sibling. The differences of the Artemis I and Artemis II Orion spacecraft…