Lego wants to see your ‘Star Wars’ holiday creations
It’s time to get festive in a galaxy far, far away with your Lego sets.
A Proposal for a Neutrino Detection Array Spanning 200,000 Square Kilometers
Sometimes in astronomy the acronym for a project fits it particularly well. That would absolutely be the case for the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection, who hopes to scale up to a size of 200,000 sq km in an effort to measure ultra-high-energy tau-neutrinos. Is it ambitious? Yes, but […]
China launches Long March 8 rocket on debut flight, plans for reusable booster
China successfully launched the first Long March 8 rocket late Monday (Dec. 21), kicking off a line of boosters that will eventually be reusable and make upright landings similar to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy.
NASA receives $23.3 billion for 2021 fiscal year in Congress’ omnibus spending bill: report
NASA’s Artemis program to land humans on the moon by 2024 faces fresh challenges after a fiscal 2021 NASA spending bill allocated less money to the human landing system than what the agency requested.
A Canadian Astronaut Will be on Artemis 2, Making it the Second Nation to Send Humans Into Deep Space (but not Walk on the Moon)
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) recently announced that a Canadian astronaut will fly as part of the crew of Artemis II. This mission, scheduled for 2023, will see an Orion space capsule conduct a circumlunar flight where it flies around the Moon without landing. This will be the […]
Space Development Agency to reevaluate proposals for missile-tracking satellites
Space Development Agency spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea said in a statement Dec. 22 that the agency is “expeditiously implementing its corrective action plan for the Tracking Tranche 0 solicitation.”
Rare ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn wows skywatchers around the world
Many people have been eagerly awaiting Monday (Dec. 21) to arrive for several reasons. For one, Monday was the last solstice of 2020. This means people in the Northern Hemisphere experienced the first day of winter, and the summer solstice arrived in the Southern Hemisphere. Second, the two largest planets […]