NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides
Reported by NASA
No one wants to get into an uncomfortable aircraft. NASA research could help the emerging industry of air taxis —small, vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft meant for short trips — understand the relationship between comfort and willingness to fly. Th...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:46 +0000
Chemistry Reveals the Origins of an Interstellar Comet
Reported by Universe Today
Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is an old star that has lost one of its comets. By some quirk of orbital mechanics, that frozen nucleus of ice and dust got kicked out of its home system and into a long and winding trajectory across space. It entered our ...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:00 +0000
How the SKA Will Use Fast Radio Bursts to Decode the Universe
Reported by Universe Today
There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes. Gas and dust don’t emit any light, and are only visible by the light that they happen to block from stars and galaxies. Magnetic fields are even harder...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:29 +0000
Are We Missing the Universe's "Noosignatures"?
Reported by Universe Today
Astrobiology has long been split into two camps: a search for "biosignatures" and a search for "intelligence." These look for very different things, but they also leave a huge gap in between. It took 3.5 billion years for us to go from the first microbe to...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:05 +0000
NASA Astronaut Anil Menon
Reported by NASA
NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, acco...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:11 +0000
NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes
Reported by NASA
Astronomers using archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri....
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:00 +0000