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NASA’s Voyager 1 Finally Phones Home After Worrying Communications Glitch (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) After some quiet time, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in action. NASA’s iconic mission has resumed its regular operations following a month-long pause in communication. In late October, Voyager 1 suddenly turned off one of its radio transmitters, […]
How China plans to put astronauts on the moon by 2030 (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) China’s human spaceflight agency has released a video detailing its plans for a first crewed mission to the moon, including progress on lunar hardware. The promotional video, published by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Nov. […]
Powerful new Vulcan Centaur rocket gearing up for 1st Space Force mission (Image Credit: Space.com) In late 2024 or early 2025, United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly its first of more than two dozen U.S. Space Force missions allocated under a national security space launch contract. “It’s incredibly exciting,” […]
NASA plane swooped over the Arctic. It detected a buried military base. (Image Credit: Mashable) The U.S. Army chose frigid, remote Greenland for a secretive Cold War project code-named “Iceworm.” Years later, NASA detected the project’s buried base, called Camp Century, deep beneath the accumulating ice. A space agency research plane swooped […]
SpaceX launches 24 more Starlink satellites from Florida (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX just launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday (Nov. 26) at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 GMT on […]
Magnetic tornadoes on Jupiter are spawning Earth-size storms (Image Credit: Space.com) Planetary scientists have issued a tornado warning for Jupiter, with the discovery that magnetic vortices twisting down from the planet’s ionosphere into its deep atmosphere are resulting in giant, ultraviolet-absorbing anticyclones each the size of our Earth. These anticyclonic storms manifest […]
International Space Station dodges 2nd piece of space junk in 6 days (Image Credit: Space.com) The International Space Station just dodged a piece of debris for the second time in less than a week. Russia’s robotic Progress 89 freighter, which has been docked to the ISS since August, fired its thrusters for […]
XRISM mission looks deeply into ‘hidden’ stellar system (Image Credit: Phys.org) Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass binary consisting of a compact object (likely a black hole) and a hot Wolf-Rayet star. This artist’s concept shows one interpretation of the system. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy indicates two gas components: a heavy background outflow, or […]
Astronomers measure cosmic electrons at the highest energies to date (Image Credit: Phys.org) The H.E.S.S. observatory, located in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia at an altitude of 1835m below the southern sky. Credit: Sabine Gloaguen Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With […]
Planetary scientist proposes an alternative theory for what lies beneath the surfaces of Uranus and Neptune (Image Credit: Phys.org) Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are generated, and a lower, non-convecting hydrocarbon-rich […]
