Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin endorses Trump for president (Image Credit: Space.com) One of the United States’ most famous space explorers is backing Donald Trump for president. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the moon, endorsed Trump in a statement today (Oct. 30), less than a week before the […]
Can ‘failed stars’ have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues (Image Credit: Space.com) Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula actually surround “failed stars,” or brown dwarfs. This is the first confirmation that planet-forming, flattened clouds of gas and dust called “protoplanetary disks” surround these […]
NASA astronaut snaps spooky photo of SpaceX Dragon capsule from ISS (Image Credit: Space.com) A SpaceX Dragon capsule looks a little ghostly in a new image taken from the space station. NASA astronaut Don Pettit snapped a picture of the Crew Dragon Freedom after the Crew-9 mission, SpaceX‘s ninth operational astronaut effort for the agency, […]
Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk’s New Spy Satellites (Image Credit: futurism-com) And they have good reason to worry. Tinker Tailor SpaceX just launched some reportedly “next-gen” spy satellites on behalf of the US government — and it sounds like certain officials at the Pentagon are anxious about it. In interviews with the New York Times, Pentagon […]
Space Force Wants Your Help Naming All Its Satellites (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) Oct. 30, 2024 | By Greg Hadley Share Article The Air Force has the F-22 Raptor. The Navy has its Nimitz-class (CVN-68) aircraft carriers. The Army has the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Now the Space Force wants in on the name game, and is […]
Sungrazing Comet Turns to Cosmic Dust in Dramatic Halloween No-Show (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A newly discovered comet met its demise during a dangerously close encounter with the Sun, breaking apart into chunks and destroying any hope of being spotted for Halloween. NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 […]
Watch the ‘Halloween comet’ ATLAS burn up as it flies into the sun (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward perihelion, the closest point to the sun in its orbit. There were earlier hopes that the comet, officially designated […]
Saturn’s moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there? (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface. Ironically, this layer may make signs of life from the […]
Cubesats on Europe’s Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch (Image Credit: Space.com) Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA’s DART impactor in 2022. DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, proved to be an unqualified […]
Debris from satellite breakup threatens other spacecraft, animation shows (Image Credit: Space.com) Debris from an exploded telecommunications satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening other spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation by a leading space situational awareness firm suggests. The animation by Pennsylvania-based COMSPOC is a “notional” representation of the aftermath of […]
