Credit: CC0 Public Domain WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court stop a novel and sweeping lawsuit pressed by children and teenagers seeking to force the federal government to take steps against climate change. Thursday’s emergency filing aims to head off a trial that’s set to start Oct. […]
That’s no moon… China is planning to replace streetlamps with light from an ‘artificial’ moon China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. Chengdu, a city in southwestern Sichuan province, is developing “illumination […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of a joint mission by European and Japanese space agencies to send twin probes to Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. An Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled to lift the uncrewed spacecraft into orbit from French Guiana shortly before […]
Jezero crater and its fossil river delta is a favored landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/BROWN UNIVERSITY After 3 days of intense debate, a nonbinding vote by planetary scientists meeting in Glendale, California, resulted in a virtual tie between several candidate landing sites for NASA’s next $2.5 billion Mars rover, due for launch in […]
Visualization of ICON’s orbit. Credits: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio In October 2018, we’re launching the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, to study Earth’s dynamic interface to space. Its combination of remote and in situ measurements will help scientists better understand this region — and how it changes in response to both space […]
A couple minutes after liftoff on Oct. 11, a Soyuz rocket failed, sending the two astronauts aboard plummeting back to Earth and prompting a Russian investigation into what went wrong. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, initial report from its investigation into the failed Oct. 11 Soyuz crew launch should […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team of researchers has successfully produced a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in space for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes creating a small experimental device that was carried on a rocket into space and the experiments that were […]
A murderous computer named HAL in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968). Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Movie audiences first heard these calmly intoned and ominous words in 1968, spoken by a spaceship’s intelligent computer in the science-fiction masterpiece “2001: A […]
Teams at ESA’s ESOC operations centre during a BepiColombo simulation — one of many pracise runs taking place in the four months before Europe’s first mission to Mercury in October 2018. Credit: European Space Agency Teams responsible for flying the bold BepiColombo mission to Mercury today completed the last major […]
Scientists working at the central peak of Gosses Bluff meteorite crater in Northern Territory. Nick Timms , Author provided The discovery of a rare mineral (reidite) at the Woodleigh meteorite impact structure in Western Australia was published this week by Curtin University honours student Morgan Cox and colleagues. Reidite – and other minerals – […]