by OGL News | Mar 22, 2024 | news-hub
UAE astronauts Mohammad AlMulla (left) and Nora AlMatrooshi after their selection as candidates was announced on Dec. 6, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/James Blair) The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) newest astronauts are looking forward to family reunions as Ramadan...
by OGL News | Mar 21, 2024 | news-hub
The Boeing Starliner capsule that will fly the company’s Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2023. (Image credit: Boeing/John Grant) The long-delayed first crewed mission of...
by OGL News | Mar 20, 2024 | news-hub
Two alternative models for the interior of white dwarfs placed side-by-side. (Left) the ordinary crystallization of a standard white dwarf. (Right) A slower cooling peculiar white dwarf dominated by distillation. (Image credit: Robert Lea/Bédard et al) White dwarfs...
by OGL News | Mar 19, 2024 | news-hub
One of the metal spherules reportedly belonging to an interstellar meteorite recovered by astronomer Avi Loeb. (Image credit: EYOS) A new study casts more doubt on the supposed success of an interstellar fishing expedition. On Jan. 8, 2014, a space rock about 1.6 feet...
by OGL News | Mar 18, 2024 | news-hub
An artist’s rendering of the US-ELTP Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) (left) and Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) (right) with their Laser Guide Stars (LSG) turned on. (Image credit: US-ELTP (TIO/NOIRLab/GMTO)) There’s a bit of tension right now in the U.S....
by OGL News | Mar 17, 2024 | news-hub
By most measures, Earth is small. The solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, could fit over 1,300 Earths inside it. But Earth isn’t the smallest planet in the solar system; that title went to Mercury after Pluto was relegated to a dwarf planet in 2006....
