Space & Spaceflight

So This Is What Space Coffee Brewed With Pee Looks Like

Good to the last drop! NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly has just posted this photo of a perfect ball of orbital coffee on Facebook. (And on Twitter. And on Instagram.) This tiny bowling ball is a large drop of freshly brewed espresso sitting peacefully at the end of a drinking straw in the form of an…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Apr 22

Hubble’s Chief Scientist Explains How the Telescope Got Off the Ground

C Robert O’Dell was Chief Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope project. Twenty five years after its launch, he explains what it took to get the project back in 1972. Iconic images of astronomical pillars of gas and dust, views of galaxies soon after they were formed, an accelerating universe driven by Dark Energy… “give…

Space & Spaceflight C Robert O'Dell Apr 22

This Is What Astronauts Snack on Between Meals

Demanding spacewalks and long hours of research in microgravity make astronauts aboard the International Space Station hungry. In this lovely video, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, explains a half dozen snacks she likes to eat during her breaks. She favors snacks like fruit salads, dehydrated strawberries, dried apple slices, different kind of seeds and nuts, and…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Apr 22

This Is NASA’s First 3D-Printed Full-Scale Copper Rocket Engine Part

It may look like some kind of ancient urn, but you’re looking at something rather more advanced. In fact this is the first full-scale copper rocket engine part made by NASA using 3D printing techniques. The component is a combustion chamber liner—a part that operates at extreme temperatures and pressures. In fact, its function means…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Apr 22

Scientists Propose a Laser for the ISS to Vaporize Space Junk

Millions of pieces of space junk, big and small, are constantly circling the Earth. This intractable problem has inspired many a grandiose idea, but perhaps none as initially bizarre-sounding as a laser on the International Space Station, a real scheme recently proposed by Japanese scientists. Now, lasers have been proposed as a space junk solution…

Space & Spaceflight Sarah Zhang Apr 21

Check Out Russia’s Sound-Proof, Indoor Rocket Engine Testing Chamber

American aerospace engineers test rocket engines in large outdoor test stands far away from densely populated areas, and let the engines roar. In Russia, they built a soundproof and gas-tight indoor test chamber right in the middle of town. Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, has just posted two awesome photos of the altitude testing…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Apr 21

Even a Simple Reflection Looks Amazing in Space

Living in space provides an overwhelming series of aesthetic joys, from whether it’s the view of Earth from above the aurora borealis—but even a simple reflection can look amazing, too. This image shows the reflection of astronauts Scott Kelly and Samantha Cristoforetti when SapceX’s Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station last Friday.…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Apr 21

Thor’s Helmet Nebula Glows With Intense X-Rays

This bright cloud of neon colors, a result of the X-ray emissions within, has a strangely distinctive shape—which landed it the name Thor’s Helmet among astronomers. In fact its formal name is NGC 2359, but the central bulge and—squint your eyes now—wing shapes to the left and right got it its name. The bright blue…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Apr 20

Enceladus’s Ice Volcanoes Are Feeding Saturn’s Rings

Saturn’s ice moon Enceladus is being slowly devoured by the gas giant’s rings, according to a series of new NASA images that show ghostly tendrils escaping the moon’s cryo-volcanoes and shooting off into space. Whoa. Enceladus may be a 310-mile across baby of a moon, but it’s been enjoying a lot of buzz lately. Like…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Apr 19

Battery-Powered Rocket Promises Cheap and Frequent Launches

The world’s first battery-powered rocket not only sounds like something straight out of science fiction, it could very well upend the space industry by ushering in a new era of frequent and (relatively) low-cost rocket launches. The carbon composite “Electron,” unveiled last week by the Auckland-based company Rocket Lab, claims to be a radical departure…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Apr 19

NASA Says Nobody’s Getting to Mars Without Its Help

NASA really wants humans make it to Mars, and it also really wants to be the one that gets us there. In fact, NASA administrator Charles Bolden went so far as to say that “No commercial company without the support of NASA and government is going to get to Mars.” Bolden made the blunt statement…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Apr 18

The Universe’s Largest Galaxies Rotted From the Inside Out

Littered across the cosmos are massive, dead galaxies, containing roughly half the stars in the known Universe. Much about these cosmic graveyards remains a mystery, but a study published yesterday in Science study offers additional insight into their death: They rotted from the inside out. The “red and dead” galaxies depicted on the right in…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Apr 18

One Small Espresso Machine For the ISS, One Giant Leap For Humankind

In the early hours of what would be this morning for many of us, astronauts on the ISS reached out into space with a robotic arm and plucked the Dragon re-supply capsule from orbit. It contains plenty of important SCIENCE, but also the most important supply of all: coffee. Lead image: 100 percent realistic depiction…

Space & Spaceflight Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 17

This Is Ceres’ North Pole

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has spent a month in the shadow of Ceres. But now, the highest resolution images of the dwarf planet to date reveal its north pole. The images, acquired by NASA on April 10th, were captured from a distance of 21,000 miles above the surface of the planet. While future images will show…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Apr 17

NASA Is Studying How to Replace Mirrors in Its Telescopes With Glitter

Space telescope Hubble and its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope are made with huge, expensive mirrors. And that can be a problem when you’re paying to launch the thing into space. So instead of one big mirror, how about thousands, or even millions, of tiny ones? In other words, how about glitter? Orbiting Rainbows…

Space & Spaceflight Sarah Zhang Apr 15

Now You Can See How Close to Perfect the SpaceX Landing Was

Yes, it’s true that yesterday SpaceX failed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone barge in the ocean. But it wasn’t exactly a crash landing, like last year’s attempt. In fact, it was a nearly perfect landing — until the rocket began to tilt and fall over. This video…

Space & Spaceflight Annalee Newitz Apr 15

That Time the US Accidentally Nuked Britain’s First Satellite

When it comes to nations with a long and rich history of space travel and exploration, Britain isn’t normally a country that comes to most people’s minds. However, they were the third country in the world to operate a satellite in orbit. It’s just a shame America ended up accidentally killing it just a few…

Space & Spaceflight Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.com Apr 15

SpaceX Crash-Landed a Rocket on a Drone Barge (Again)

Well, that’s a hat trick! For the third time this year , SpaceX attempted to launch a Falcon 9 rocket and autonomously land the first stage portion on an unmanned barge. And for the third time this year, that (very expensive) rocket crashed and burned. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-spacexs-rocket-crash-landing-on-a-barge-1679890015 Elon Musk gave the official, albeit disappointing, announcement on…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes Apr 14

This Is the First Section of a Giant Map of the Universe’s Dark Matter

A team of cosmologists is creating an enormous map of how dark matter is distributed across the Universe—and this is the first section to be completed. The map was presented yesterday at a meeting of the American Physical Society by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. It’s been acquired using a…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Apr 14

The European Space Agency Is Being Littered With Pacman-Style Art

Stroll around the European Space Agency’s operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, and you’ll see more than rocket science. Appearing on the sides of buildings is a series of artworks inspired by 80s arcade games. Installed by the French artist Invader, the pieces will continue to pop up on buildings and perhaps even in the International…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Apr 14

So This Is What Space Coffee Brewed With Pee Looks Like

Hubble’s Chief Scientist Explains How the Telescope Got Off the Ground

This Is What Astronauts Snack on Between Meals

This Is NASA’s First 3D-Printed Full-Scale Copper Rocket Engine Part

Scientists Propose a Laser for the ISS to Vaporize Space Junk

Check Out Russia’s Sound-Proof, Indoor Rocket Engine Testing Chamber

Even a Simple Reflection Looks Amazing in Space

Thor’s Helmet Nebula Glows With Intense X-Rays

Enceladus’s Ice Volcanoes Are Feeding Saturn’s Rings

Battery-Powered Rocket Promises Cheap and Frequent Launches

NASA Says Nobody’s Getting to Mars Without Its Help

The Universe’s Largest Galaxies Rotted From the Inside Out

One Small Espresso Machine For the ISS, One Giant Leap For Humankind

This Is Ceres’ North Pole

NASA Is Studying How to Replace Mirrors in Its Telescopes With Glitter

Now You Can See How Close to Perfect the SpaceX Landing Was

That Time the US Accidentally Nuked Britain’s First Satellite

SpaceX Crash-Landed a Rocket on a Drone Barge (Again)

This Is the First Section of a Giant Map of the Universe’s Dark Matter

The European Space Agency Is Being Littered With Pacman-Style Art

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