Daily News update on – Science

Space.com

Meet Anastasia Stepanova, a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines here in Golden, and a veteran of multiple missions here on Earth that simulate the conditions human crews would experience during spaceflight or long-duration …

Space.com

The world’s largest, most powerful rocket caused some serious mayhem during its first launch. SpaceX’s massive fully-integrated Starship launch vehicle lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase test facility in Boca Chica, Texas on April 20 at 9:33 a.m. EDT …

Space.com

“Station, this is Posty… How do you hear me?” With seemingly nervous excitement, Post Malone, or Austin Post as he is known offstage, began his call with NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg, who launched to the ISS last month on SpaceX’s Crew-6 …

Space.com

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks overnight on Saturday (April 22) night into early Sunday (April 23) offering skywatchers the opportunity to spot some fast and bright meteors as they streak through the night sky.

The Weather Channel

The crucial balance that sustains life on Earth appears to be hanging by a thread, with global warming’s sinister grip wearing it down year after year. Adding to this body of evidence, the latest IMBIE data has revealed that Greenland and Antarctic ice …

CNN

Following several reports from across Hamilton County, Indiana, about a “possible explosion and a light streaking across the sky” Friday night, emergency management officials say the source of the sonic boom heard was likely a meteor.

Ars Technica

They’re much lighter than WIMPs but have other properties that are consistent with dark matter, which has sustained low-level interest in them. Now, a new paper argues that there are features in a gravitational lens (largely the product of dark matter) …

Phys.Org

Europe’s CERN laboratory has taken its first steps towards building a huge new particle accelerator that would eclipse its Large Hadron Collider—and hopes to see light at the end of the tunnel. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) particle smasher would …

New Scientist

SpaceX is working hard to dim its Starlink satellites to minimise their effects on astronomy, but so far the company’s efforts haven’t worked as astronomers had hoped. That might mean that there is a difficult choice ahead: high-speed internet via …

Caltech

Today, McCuller tinkers with what some would call the most advanced measurement device in the world: LIGO, or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. McCuller is an expert on quantum squeezing, a method …