Starlink vs AST SpaceMobile: Tortoise or Hare? (Image Credit: Sat News) SpaceX’s Starlink has managed to launch 349 of its Direct-To-Cellular (D2C) satellites in less than a year. While this is an admirable achievement the fleet is currently only able to manage simple Text/SMS messages to users in remote areas. The 349 […]
Scientists find how often sun-like stars emit ‘superflares.’ It shocked them. (Image Credit: Mashable) Our sun regularly shoots out solar flares — explosions of light and radiation from its surface — into space. But how about superflares? These stellar events are thousands of times more powerful than typical solar flares, which can […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has spent more than thirty years providing some of the most incredible images of the known universe, but it’s only for the last ten that scientists have pointed its gaze at our solar system’s outer planets to observe them like never before. For the past decade, NASA’s Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy […]
A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is located roughly 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus. NGC 5643 is referred to as a grand design spiral, which describes galaxies with prominent and well-defined spiral arms. The Hubble […]
NASA video shows its next Martian helicopter soaring over Mars (Image Credit: Mashable) NASA’s Mars helicopter proved so successful, the space agency plans to build a larger, more advanced chopper. After over 70 flights, the Ingenuity helicopter — the first craft to ever make a powered, controlled flight on another planet— crashed […]
Spacecraft makes daring approach of metal object in Earth’s orbit (Image Credit: Mashable) A Japanese spacecraft has made a daring approach to a discarded rocket in Earth’s orbit. The mission — undertaken by the satellite technology company Astroscale — intends to eventually remove the 36-foot-long spent rocket stage, but has first tested […]
‘We are preparing to make history’: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe gears up for epic sun flyby on Christmas Eve (Image Credit: Space.com) On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface at a whopping 430,000 mph (690,000 kph), breaking its own […]
Japanese company ispace plans to land helium-3 mining missions on the moon (Image Credit: Space.com) Space mining is inching closer to reality with the latest agreement between Japanese lunar exploration company ispace and lunar prospecting company Magna Petra. In a memo of understanding, ispace and Magna Petra have agreed to collaborate to […]
An ambitious NASA mission to map the sky in 3D using a space-based observatory now has a target launch date of late February 2025. NASA’s compact car-sized observatory, called Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (or just SPHEREx for short), will map the millions of stars and galaxies […]
Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars liquid may not all have been water (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists are rethinking a long-held belief that the liquid responsible for shaping Mars’ surface must have been water. For decades, evidence like massive outflow channels, ancient river valleys, deltas and lakebeds have suggested Mars had a watery […]
