NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agencyâs Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the Moon for the first time in history. The human landing system awards under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) Appendix…
Day: May 19, 2020
Giant Meteorite Impacts Formed Parts Of The Moon’s Crust
New research published today in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals a type of destructive event most often associated with disaster movies and dinosaur extinction may have also contributed to the formation of the Moon’s surface. A group of international scientists led by the Royal Ontario Museum has discovered that the formation of ancient rocks on the Moon…
#1 Super-Fast Pulsar Found Snacking On Its Companion In Far-Flung Star Cluster
China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) has uncovered the first known pulsar in Messier 92, a globular star cluster roughly 27,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Hercules. The swiftly spinning and pulsating object, which goes by two names â PSR J1717+4307A and M92A â forms one part of an eclipsing binary system in which…
How Does The Brain Link Events To Form A Memory? Study Reveals Unexpected Mental Processes
A woman walking down the street hears a bang. Several moments later she discovers her boyfriend, who had been walking ahead of her, has been shot. A month later, the woman checks into the emergency room. The noises made by garbage trucks, she says, are causing panic attacks. Her brain had formed a deep, lasting…
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