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Where’s the Blaze Star? Why the overdue ‘new star’ T Coronae Borealis has yet to light up the night sky (Image Credit: Space.com) The highly-anticipated “guest star” of the night sky has yet to deliver its grand performance — but we have an update. For a quick recap, astronomers and stargazers have […]
Hubble Telescope peeks at star with planet-forming disk that gets 3 times hotter than the sun (Image Credit: Space.com) A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, scientists believe that […]
China reveals secrets of 1st sample taken from the far side of the moon — and it contains a volcanic surprise (Image Credit: Space.com) The first analysis of lava samples from the moon’s far side reveals that volcanoes were erupting there 2.8 billion years ago. The moon is tidally locked with Earth, […]
Strange “quasi-moon” of Earth will get one of these 7 names (Image Credit: Space.com) A weird “quasi-moon” of Earth is about to get a name — and you can be part of the process. Earlier this year, the science podcast Radiolab and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the organization that assigns […]
Fruit flies in space! Chinese astronauts show off experiment on Tiangong space station (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) China’s Shenzhou 19 astronauts have some winged companions to oversee aboard the country’s space station. The astronauts arrived at the Tiangong space station on Oct. 29, beginning their six-month-long stay in orbit. They have since […]
SETI tracks distorted signals from distant pulsars with data from destroyed Arecibo Observatory (Image Credit: Space.com) You can knock a good telescope out, but you can’t keep it down. Using data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope, scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have unlocked the secrets of signals […]
Satellites spy red-hot lava threaten Iceland’s Blue Lagoon (Image Credit: Space.com) Satellites watched bright burning lava surge toward Iceland’s Blue Lagoon following a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. A series of earthquakes triggered a new eruption from a volcanic fissure on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on the evening of Nov. 20, 2024. […]
World’s 2nd fastest supercomputer runs largest-ever simulation of the universe (Image Credit: Space.com) The world’s second fastest supercomputer — it used to be the fastest, before its rival machine came online earlier this month — has created the most complex computer simulation of the universe to date. The goal of this simulation […]
Why the highly-anticipated ‘new star’ has yet to pop up in the night sky (Image Credit: Space.com) The highly-anticipated “guest star” of the night sky has yet to deliver its grand performance — but we have an update. For a quick recap, astronomers and stargazers have been gazing toward the Corona Borealis […]
Maintaining American leadership: Space Force funding and legislative autonomy (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. Five years after its establishment, the United States Space Force remains hindered by its dependence on the Air Force for both funding […]
