• December 7, 2024
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NASA delays crewed lunar landing to 2027 (Image Credit: Phys.org) A supermoon rises over Singapore on October 17, 2024. The United States is delaying its planned return to the moon from 2026 to “mid-2027,” citing heat shield issues and other problems plaguing its Orion crew capsule, NASA officials said Thursday. The announcement […]

  • December 7, 2024
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Hubble takes closest-ever look at a quasar (Image Credit: Phys.org) A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There’s a linear orange-white smoke-like feature stretching to the 4 o’clock position, […]

  • December 7, 2024
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Iran launches heaviest space payload into orbit: media (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Iran successfully launched on Friday its heaviest space payload, which includes a satellite and a space tug, using a domestically developed satellite carrier, official media reported. Weighing 300 kilograms (660 pounds), the payload consisted of the Fakhr-1 […]

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Researchers Suggest Fascinating Reason for Enigmatic Signals from Outer Space

  • December 7, 2024
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Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space (Image Credit: futurism-com) Fast radio bursts (FRBs), hugely powerful discharges of energy emanating from the furthest reaches of outer space, have confounded scientists for well over a decade. They’re so powerful that they can release as much energy in a millisecond as the […]

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A car-sized asteroid will pass between the Earth and the moon tonight.

  • December 7, 2024
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Car-size asteroid will zip between Earth and the moon tonight (Image Credit: Space.com) A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week for asteroid watchers all over the world. The roughly 15-foot-wide (4.6 meters) asteroid, designated 2024 XS2, will […]

More than 10,000 supernovae recorded by the innovative Zwicky Transient Facility.

  • December 6, 2024
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Over 10,000 exploding stars catalogued by groundbreaking Zwicky Transient Facility (Image Credit: Space.com) The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone: It has classified over 10,000 cosmic explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the feeding frenzies of vampire stellar remnants. These events, called supernovas, are undoubtedly some of […]