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Walking on the moon at 30,000 feet - Space.com trains like an astronaut in wild ride

There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a ...

What happens to your brain in space?

If you don't bring an effective brain to space and a working brain to space that will be all worthless – Alessandro Alcibiade ...

New James Webb Space Telescope images unveil secrets of nearby galaxy perplexing astronomers

The images shed light on the galaxy’s past and star clusters that other telescopes couldn’t in what the astronomers are ...

Alvaro Romero-Calvo and Theo St Francis: How does the space station never run out of oxygen?

For over 25 years, the International Space Station’s air supply systems have revolutionized space missions. Yet the need for regular maintenance, repairs, and upgrades has pushed engineers to develop even more reliable systems for future spacecraft. How do we create breathable air in space? And what does that look like for longer expeditions? Al...

If We Could Travel to the Stars, Where Should We Go First?

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should we look at first?

Space is so crowded a satellite-killing shard could strike with no warning at all

A piece of orbital debris smaller than a marble can punch through a working satellite at speeds exceeding 10 kilometers per ...

NASA-JPL Psyche launch on track with 'outstanding' progress, review board confirms

Steps taken by NASA, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, and Caltech, to put the Psyche mission on track for an October 2023 launch have been outstanding, according to ...

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books Set in Space, Ranked

Project Hail Mary, Solaris, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are all among the very best sci-fi books set in space.

50 years later, NASA's Voyager probe is reaching a big milestone for space travel

Nearly 50 years ago, NASA launched what would become its first interstellar spacecraft, and this year Voyager 1 is set to ...

Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox

Researchers have proposed that black holes stop evaporating at the last moment, leaving behind tiny remnants that preserve all the information they contain. The same seven-dimensional geometry behind this idea could also help explain why elementary particles have mass.

Black Hole Mergers Simplified: Universe's Violent Events

When two black holes orbit each other, they will eventually spiral inward and collide in one of the most violent phenomena in the universe. The event

Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth

Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black ...

Physicist Clifford Johnson explains what’s really inside a black hole

Star is about to transform into a black hole. And we’re about to travel inside it to see what’s on the other side. The only ...

Would you spend a year pretending to live on Mars? NASA wants volunteers

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...

First supernova detected, confirmed, classified and shared by AI

A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova. Developed by an international ...

Comet 10P returns this month, bright enough to catch in a pair of binoculars

Backyard astronomers across the Northern Hemisphere have a narrow window this month to spot Comet 10P/Tempel 2 as it swings ...

Show HN: DemandMap – Memory Mapping S3 into Polars on macOS Without FUSE

Basically this exists to solve one of my biggest pain-points with dataframe libraries and big data. It's basically impossible to lazily download data on S3 with polars unless you're processing it strictly sequentially, and even then, it won't work with arrow and numpy data.This allows you to "download" a multi-gigabyte file on S3 into a Polars DataFrame in <100ms.# Demo alloc = demandmap.S3Alloc( "./cache.bin", # number of blocks

Show HN: Cona – design your real room in 3D, in the browser

Hey HN! I've been working on this idea for around 9 months and want to know your opinion on the concept and the experience.I came up with it when I moved in with my girlfriend and we had a hard time making our small studio work. In Cona, you can draw your floor plan with real dimensions, scan your room, or pick from a template, then design it with real, purchasable items. It's free and there's no sign-up to try it. I wanted to build something that helps people like me actually liv

Show HN: Venetianblinds.js – evenly spaced windows into text files

I kept wanting a way to quickly orient myself in large files before searching them. Instead of searching, this CLI opens evenly spaced "windows" through a file and shows the surrounding context.Github: https://github.com/firasd/venetianblindsIt turned out to be surprisingly useful on both source code and long text.Usage:npx github:firasd/venetianblinds --samples=5 reactdomroot.js # venetianblindsfile: reactdomroot.js characters: 12729 samples: 5 context_range:

Space tourism hasn’t taken off, but the dream isn’t over yet

In the next few years, a private company plans to begin assembling a commercial space station in the Earth’s orbit, the ...