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Scientists watch hardcore object blasting energy beams into space (Image Credit: Mashable) A rapidly spinning, profoundly dense object is blasting a “flame-like” beam into space. It’s a type of neutron star — the remnants of a collapsed, exploded star so dense that just a sugar cube-sized piece of this extremely compact material […]
No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now (Image Credit: Mashable) Astronomers have been able to look at the sun and a handful of other stars in the Milky Way up close, thanks to modern advances in telescopes. But getting a detailed view of […]
Watch Blue Origin launch ‘Space Gal’ Emily Calandrelli, 5 others on tourism flight today (Image Credit: Space.com) Blue Origin will launch its ninth space tourism flight this morning (Nov. 22). The mission — known as NS-28, because it will be the 28th launch overall of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle — is […]
SpaceX’s 6th Starship megarocket launch looked amazing from space in astronaut and camera views (photo, video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The largest rocket ever built launched on its sixth test flight earlier this week, wowing spectators on the ground — and even some in space. SpaceX’s monstrous, 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket launched […]
Canada wants your help to name its 1st moon rover (Image Credit: Space.com) Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine. The Canadian Space Agency asked people around the world to pick from the semi-finalist names for the moon rover, which will launch […]
SpaceX and NASA show off how Starship will help astronauts land on the moon (images) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX and NASA have released new artwork detailing how the company’s Starship rocket might ferry Artemis astronauts to the surface of the moon. The renders show a variety of maneuvers and steps that SpaceX’s […]
October 2024 set multiple US records for the driest month ever (Image Credit: Space.com) Our changing climate continues to contribute to another record-setting month, with temperature extremes and drought expansion across much of the US. Close to 80 climate stations across the country set new records reporting that October 2024 was the […]
SpaceX likely to get FAA approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025 (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX wants to ramp up flights of its Starship megarocket next year, and regulations apparently won’t stand in the way. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a draft environmental assessment (EA) of […]
Predicting the next supernova explosion: New simulations reveal the physics of supernova shock breakout (Image Credit: Phys.org) Shock breakout of hypernovae: Hypernovae are even more violent astronomical phenomena than supernovae, with explosion energies exceeding those of supernovae by more than ten times. These powerful explosions are typically accompanied by strong jets that […]
Making Mars’s moons: Supercomputers offer ‘disruptive’ new explanation (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars get its moons? The first step, the findings say, may have involved the destruction of […]
