From space to museum showcase: the shuttles’ final mission

From space to museum showcase: the shuttles’ final mission

[ad_1] Credit: California Science Center The space shuttle era was a time of many firsts for space exploration. Most prominently, it marked the regular usage of the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into low Earth orbit. In its 30-year history since beginning...

The Case for a Small Universe

[ad_1] The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge of the observable universe, and while you might think that...
From space to museum showcase: the shuttles’ final mission

India’s leap into solar science: The Aditya-L1 mission

[ad_1] An illustration shows India’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft after launching to study the Sun. Credit: IRSO/ Robert Lea Fresh on the heels of an inaugural Moon landing at the lunar South Pole last month, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has done it...