Space Travel Slows Thinking Speed. But Astronauts Can Still Complete Tasks Accurately, Says New NASA Study
NASA's research could provide useful information as humans venture farther out into space.
Tag: Space
Hubble captures dramatic outburst of space “volcano”
A binary system of a red giant and white dwarf is creating a spectacular show in R Aquarii.
India’s first autonomous reusable spaceplane makes successful runway landing
India's space agency is on its way to achieve another breakthrough. They are developing their own unmanned spaceplane.
Earth could one day have rings like Saturn — only they’d be made of space junk
Magnets can help un-clutter space, according to new research.
Researchers rediscover ancient parchment that served as ancient, accurate map of the sky
The catalog was thought to be lost -- but was now rediscovered.
Perseverance finds organic material in rock samples from Mars
This isn't proof that Mars used to harbor life, but it does help support that hypothesis.
NASA funds three research projects aimed at clearing the trash in Earth’s orbit
Tidying up in space will take some impressive research.
Chinese astronauts grow rice and cress in space, on the Tiangong 1 station
More and more experiments show that food can be grown in space.
The James Webb Space Telescope goes live with a stunning first picture, peering 13 billion years into the past
This is a momentous occasion.
An incredibly detailed map of Psyche shows the asteroid has a very eventful history
Metals, rock, and craters are sprinkled all throughout its surface.
We’ve managed to litter Mars, as well, NASA’s Perseverance Rover shows
Wherever humans go, trash follows.
Can planets orbit multiple star systems like in Star Wars?
Planets in binary, tetranary, octonary systems. Are they possible?
Scientists want to make space bricks out of human urine on Mars
Everything we need to build stuff would already be available on Mars.
The pharmanauts: how will astronauts produce drugs on deep space missions?
Scientists have come up with some pretty inventive ways to produce interstellar drugs -- because astronauts will likely need them.
Researchers have just found the biggest galaxy ever discovered — and it’s big alright
We don't really know why these ultra-big structures get so big -- but finding more of them could help us ...
What is the Oort cloud: the very edge of the solar system
At the edge of the Sun's gravitational influence, there's a cloud of ice and rock. Probably.
Martian outposts could be made with astronaut’s blood, sweat, and pee — quite literally
Their blood, tears, and sweat contain useful chemicals for developing construction materials.
Bezos picks aerospace pioneer Wally Funk to join him on space flight
They are scheduled to launch on July 20 on the New Shepard rocket
Alien observers from 1,700 star systems could already be aware that there’s life on Earth
Researchers estimate that 29 of those are potentially habitable.
Two new NASA missions earmarked for ‘lost habitable’ planet Venus
We haven't been there in a while.
Uranus is leaking radiation, researchers say
Some headline formats never get old.
A new approach to cleaning space junk is being tested in space right now
It's not meant to remove what's already there, but to stop new trash from piling up.
Researchers find four strains of bacteria on the ISS — three are completely new to science
Space: the final petri dish.
SpaceX rocket aced a landing, then exploded so hard it launched again for a bit
Maybe it was jumping for joy?
Astronomers found a giant cluster of galaxies from the early universe
LAGER-z7OD1 is possibly one of the clusters that marked the end of the Dark Ages of the Universe.
Titan’s largest methane sea is over 1000 feet deep, says a new paper
We don’t know exactly how deep because our radar couldn't pierce through all of it.
Six asteroids to pass close to Earth tomorrow, says NASA
The closest one should pass around the same distance the Moon orbits at.
The largest planetary ring system we’ve found would dominate the sky — if it was in our solar system
When talking about planetary ring systems, Saturn and Jupiter likely spring to mind -- they are our closest ringed neighbors, ...
Milky Way’s X-ray reveals giant bubbles
The first complete scan from the eROSITA mission shows a large structure emerging from the galactic center.
No one knows for sure the expansion rate of the universe
Cosmologists aren’t sure about how fast the universe expands and the mystery continues.
The Betelgeuse false alarm and Red Giants dust hypothesis
Betelgeuse didn't go boom, it just coughed a bit.
This could be the first extragalactic planet we’ve ever found
Status report: astronomers may have found a planet outside our galaxy, something that has never been done before.
Mars has ‘multiple bodies’ of liquid water, new study concludes
This has been a tremendous month for discoveries on the inner planets.
Infrared mosaic reveals hot geology on cold moon
Saturn's moon Enceladus features ice tectonics and subsurface liquid water.
Surprisingly enough, comets can generate auroras too — in ultraviolet light
Does this mean we can get a tan on a comet?
Europe’s most powerful solar telescope lets us see its surface and spots up close
Up close and per-Sun-al.
Space doesn’t make for a good sleeping spot, a new paper reports
Astronauts can see an almost 20% drop in sleep efficiency while off-world.
Our Sun’s magnetic field might form a ‘deflated croissant’, says NASA
Science -- because you can't prove there's magnetic pastry in space any other way.
Partial supernova sends a white dwarf barrelling through space
Why not start with a bang, eh?
Amateur astronomer finds and christens Clyde’s Spot — a new storm on Jupiter
Everyone can help explore space!
Curiosity embarks on the next leg of its journey
It should reach its goal by fall.
China launches the last of 55 satellites for its own GPS system
The USA, Europe, Russia, and now China all have their own GPS system.
Playing Asteroids is No Game: Humanity’s Future Could Depend on Diverting Asteroid Impacts
It isn't hyperbole to say, the survival of our species may depend on a sucessful method of preventing an asteroid ...
More than 12,000 Americans want to become NASA astronauts for the Artemis mission
It's the second-highest number of applications the agency ever received for a single mission.
Urine, the future material to build new bases at the moon
Urea could help build hardier, sturdier bases in space.
Hubble’s spectacular new image of the Umbrella Galaxy will help make your quarantine prettier
Things are pretty stressful on Earth right now -- so look at the sky!
What is the vacuum of space?
Nature hates a vaccuum -- so why do we have one?
One year on this exoplanet lasts only 18 hours
The planet could fall into its host star in the next decade.
