Scientists find a shortcut to Mars that cuts travel time in half
For decades, the biggest obstacle to reaching Mars hasn’t just been the distance, but the grueling seven-to-nine-month ...
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Could NASA's lithium-plasma engine be the key to getting humans to Mars?
NASA is working on a lithium-plasma electric thruster that uses roughly 90% less fuel than chemical rockets. Can this new ...
The space race to create gym equipment for future astronauts
Scientists are attempting to build exercise equipment to be used on future space flights.
Cleveland Clinic launches space health center in heart institute
Cleveland Clinic launches space health center to research and treat cardiovascular effects of space travel and educate healthcare professionals.
Astronomers just found a pulsar circling near our galaxy’s giant black hole — a cosmic clock precise enough to test Einstein at Sagittarius A*
For more than two decades, radio astronomers have been hunting for a specific kind of needle in the Milky Way’s most chaotic ...
A researcher says shortcut could cut Mars travel time in more than half
Under the best circumstances, a trip from Earth to Mars and back would take a spacecraft three years to complete. And that's during a very specific orbital alignment that occurs once every two years ...
Bitcoin magnate joins SpaceX Mars mission
Chun Wang, co-founder of the Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool and commander of SpaceX’s Fram2 private astronaut flight, has been named for Starship’s first interplanetary human spaceflight mission, a ...
Mars shortcut discovery could slash travel time in half
A newly identified corridor, anchored to an asteroid’s orbit, may transform how scientists chart missions to the red planet — and reshape the future of human deep-space travel. For decades, a trip to ...
Shakeup at JPL? Control over iconic NASA center could change for 1st time in nearly 100 years
NASA plans to open up competition for control over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has historically been operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
This new route to the moon could make space travel cheaper, here’s how
Scientists discover a new fuel-saving route to the Moon that could lower mission costs, improve space travel efficiency, and ...
New Cleveland Clinic center to research effects of space travel on heart
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Clinic physicians and researchers are collaborating to understand how space travel affects the ...
Scientist accidentally finds shortcut to Mars that could slash travel time in half
Every time the Earth and Mars slow down enough to face each other from the same side of the sun, mission planners get a brief ...
Scientists find a shortcut to Mars that cuts travel time in half
For decades, the biggest obstacle to reaching Mars hasn’t just been the distance, but the grueling seven-to-nine-month journey astronauts would have to endure inside a cramped capsule while exposed to ...
Scientists to study 'space weather' around Earth
EUROPE and China launched a joint space science mission last May 19 aimed at unraveling the complex interaction between the Sun and Earth’s magnetic environment, a phenomenon that directly affects ...
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet ...
Ask HN: OpenAI, SpaceX/xAI, Anthropic all to IPO, is this a sign of the peak?
My question is to people far more experienced in this world and familiar with the behavior of investors and startups -> IPO.Given the leaks recently that they’re all aiming for an IPO asap, is this a strong signal that their investors feel this is the peak of their valuation for the near if not indefinite future?I understand it’s impossible to know anything for sure, least of all how the market will react regardless of the motivations of these players, but I’m curious to get some perspectives
Show HN: HEVCut, AVIF photo encoding for iPhone, iPad and Mac
HEVCut is a photo and video compression app for Apple platforms I have been working on. Today's update adds AVIF as an output format for photos, which I believe makes it the first app on the App Store to ship AVIF encoding on iOS.Apple added AVIF decode in 2022 (iOS 16, macOS Ventura) but never shipped an encoder, public or private. Photos cannot export AVIF, ImageIO cannot write it, and no other third party app on the store does it either. So if you wanted AVIF files coming off an iPhone,
This new route to the moon could make space travel cheaper, here’s how
Scientists discover a new fuel-saving route to the Moon that could lower mission costs, improve space travel efficiency, and ...
How ageing on Earth mimics the effects of space travel
Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts experience accelerated ageing could help us fight similar effects on Earth related to sedentary lifestyles, disrupted circadian rhythms and social isolation
Milky Way's central black hole may have scarfed down another black hole
A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...