Tag: Space
The Insane Engineering of the Parker Solar Probe
The Insane Engineering of the Parker Solar Probe
Russia announces withdrawal from International Space Station | WNT
Russia has announced it will withdraw as a partner in the International Space Station after 2024.
An astrophysicist watches 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' for the first time
I call myself a Sci-Fi fan and yet I've never watched any Star Trek?! I figured why not film my reaction so we can chat about which parts are more science, a...
An astrophysicist reacts to Carl Sagan's Contact
Jodie Foster as an astrophysicist searching for alien signals - what's not to love?! To learn more about radio waves head to http://brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free.
Real astrophysicist reacts to Netflix's Don't Look Up
Real astrophysicist reacts to Netflix's Don't Look Up
An astrophysicist explains the first JWST science images
The first science images from JWST are absolutely spectacular, but what are we seeing in them and what can learn from them? I've been at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Warwick all week with 500 of my fellow astronomers, and we've been...
The First and Only Photos From Venus - What Did We See? (4K)
Only four spacecraft have ever returned photographs from the surface of Venus. The Venera landers scanned the surface back and forth to create panoramic images of their surroundings. They revealed yellow skies and cracked, desolate landscapes that were b...
James Webb Telescope Unexpected Discovery Shocks The Entire Space Industry
n a remarkable dream come true for space scientists, NASA’s James Webb Telescope has demonstrated its unprecedented capacity to analyze the atmosphere of a huge exoplanet. JWST has captured the distinct signature of water in the atmosphere surrounding a h...
Something's Seriously Wrong With Voyager 1 Probe 23 Billion km Away
Voyager 1 is in trouble. The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: readouts from the probe’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don’t reflect what’s actually happening onboard. The AACS controls the 4...
Highlights: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Official NASA Video)
NASA revealed the first five full-color images and spectrographic data from the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The world got its first...
Just now China Launches New Data Relay Satellite. China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's
China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Wednesday.https://www.cctv...
Seeing The Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before
Jul 13, 2022 Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has released its first images, it’s time for the science programs to begin.
Why a Mars Colony is a Stupid and Dangerous Idea
On today's episode of "Elon said it, so it must be a good idea".
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures the Sounds of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover carries two microphones which are directly recording sounds on the Red Planet, including the Ingenuity helicopter and the rover itself at work. For the very first time, these audio recordings offer a new way to experience th...
Globalstar FM15 Mission
On Sunday, June 19 at 12:27 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Globalstar FM15 to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
