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Daily News update on – Science

⋅ June 15, 2024
NEWS
The New York Times

Edward Stone, 88, Physicist Who Oversaw Voyager Missions, Is Dead
The New York Times
Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who dispatched NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the first time, to venture beyond to unravel interstellar mysteries, died on Sunday at his home in Pasadena, …
Space.com

Could nearby stars have habitable exoplanets? NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory hopes to find out
Space.com
a giant blazing star hangs in the black of space, burning vibrant yellow and dark. An artist’s rendering of a star with an exoplanet. (Image credit: NASA/ …
The New York Times

Voyager 1, After Major Malfunction, Is Back From the Brink, NASA Says
The New York Times
Several months after a grave computer problem seemed to spell the end for Voyager 1, which for nearly a half century had provided data on the outer planets and the far reaches of the solar system, NASA announced on Thursday that it had restored the …
Aviation Week

NASA Resets Space Station Spacewalk For June 24 After Delay
Aviation Week
HOUSTON—The NASA spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) that was postponed on June 13 has been rescheduled for June 24. The primary objective remains the same: retrieval of a degraded communications antenna computer control box called …
San Antonio Express-News

Planet Earth has a “front row seat” to rare cosmic event this summer
San Antonio Express-News
Texas Hill Country has been honored again for its fight against light pollution, and is one of the best places to keep an eye out for T Coronae Borealis’ upcoming nova outburst this summer. Pakin Songmor/Getty Images. This summer, astronomers all over …
Aviation Week

RTX Dropped From Space Force’s MEO-Based Missile Tracking
Aviation Week
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite launches from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 4, 2022. Credit: U.S. Air Force.
Newsweek

‘Jurassic Park’ Theme Preserved in DNA in ‘Amber’
Newsweek
Scientists may be one step closer to creating digital data storage out of DNA after developing a glassy, amber-like material to preserve the molecule. The first DNA sequence to be stored in this way encodes the movie theme from Jurassic Park, …
EarthSky

Did Earth lose its protective bubble 2 million years ago?
EarthSky
The culprit, the scientists said, was a cold cloud in space, made mostly of hydrogen atoms. That cloud crossed paths with our solar system. In fact, this cloud might have been so dense that it buffeted away the sun’s protective bubble.
KRCRTV.COM

Eaglet Sol from Redding’s beloved eagle pair passes away, FORE mourns the loss
KRCRTV.COM
REDDING, Calif. — The Friends of the Redding Eagles (FORE) shared some sad news, after a successful hatch day to two healthy eaglets back in March, one of the Eaglets died unexpectedly on Friday morning. Sol and Luna on their hatch day (FORE).
Ironton Tribune

From the moon to Wayne National Forest
Ironton Tribune
Wayne National Forest Athens Ranger District Silviculturist Lily Zahor poses with the Moon Tree, a sweetgum sapling that traveled aboard NASA’s Artemis I mission on Nov. 16, 2022. The tree was recently planted at the WNF headquarters in Nelsonville.