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On this day in space! NASA astronaut Mae Jemison makes history as the 1st Black woman in space
16+ hour, 8+ min ago (435+ words) Jemison, a medical doctor and engineer, spent 8 days in orbit on space shuttle Endeavour. On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were…...
Perseid meteors meet mesmerizing star trails over Egypt's Western Desert
18+ hour, 8+ min ago (219+ words) Osama Fathi captured this breathtaking view of Perseids cutting through star trails from Egypt's Western Desert on Aug. 13-14. Fathi imaged the star trails in 240 consecutive 25-second exposures, which captured the apparent motion of the stars in Earth's sky as they…...
Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (360+ words) "NASA's award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria mandated by Congress." Rocket Lab still holds out hope that it can build NASA's next Mars orbiter. The agency picked Blue Origin for that job earlier this month, awarding…...
I've chased the 'false dawn' for years — this is the week to find and photograph it
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (473+ words) September's new moon opens a dark window for seeing zodiacal light, the ghostly cone of interplanetary dust that rises above the eastern horizon before dawn. Some stargazing feels like you know exactly what you are looking for, but you're still…...
The Summer Triangle — 3 stars, 1 seasonal mystery
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (310+ words) The Summer Triangle dominates the night sky long after summer begins to fade. So what makes Vega, Altair and Deneb a distinctly summer sight? On clear September evenings, I often find myself looking up just after dusk, expecting the sky…...
LINK spacecraft gets close to NASA's Swift Observatory, but not close enough to save it
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (182+ words) Josh Dinner is Space.com's Spaceflight Staff Writer. He is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration, and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA's Artemis program and…...
Scientists study 3,000 supernovas and discover that dark energy may be evolving
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (349+ words) "Instead of confirming the standard model of cosmology, which assumes dark energy is fixed and unchanging, we have more evidence that dark energy may change over time." A catalog of almost 3,000 white dwarfs that exploded as type Ia supernovas after…...
Mercury is shrinking faster than we thought. What's going on inside of it?
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (333+ words) "It made us think that there's a process obscuring shortening structures." Wrinkles on the surface of Mercury have revealed that the closest planet to the sun is shrinking faster than scientists thought. New research suggests that Mercury is shrinking between…...
This 'impossible' black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (437+ words) "Like light, gravitational waves can also be deflected, magnified, and split into multiple signals by massive objects." A "forbidden" merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. That's according to new research…...
International Space Station astronaut gives out of this world tribute to honor Star Trek’s 60th anniversary
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (289+ words) There may not be a more fitting place to celebrate 60 years of Star Trek. Celebrations of Star Trek's 60th anniversary made it all the way to the final frontier. Adenot launched to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule on NASA's…...