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 […]
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Data from citizen scientists assist in revealing the secrets of a blue aurora at low latitudes.
Citizen scientist data help uncover the mysteries of a blue low-latitude aurora (Image Credit: Phys.org) One of the two photographs that captured blue-dominant aurora and were analyzed in this study. Credit: Takuya Usami Colorful auroras appeared around Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11, 2024, sparked by an intense magnetic storm. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Researchers Suggest Fascinating Reason for Enigmatic Signals from Outer Space
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 […]
Researchers discover hidden comet in the asteroid belt — how many more might exist?
Scientists find secret comet in the asteroid belt — how many others are there? (Image Credit: Space.com) A new “main-belt comet” — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up to 14. Along […]
A car-sized asteroid will pass between the Earth and the moon tonight.
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 […]
Mars rover Perseverance sends a postcard from the picturesque ‘Pico Turquino’ (photo)
Mars rover Perseverance sends home postcard from scenic ‘Pico Turquino’ (photo) (Image Credit: Space.com) After an arduous ascent to the rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover is doing a little sightseeing. The most recent stop on its Red Planet road trip? A roughly 656-foot-long (200 meters) outcrop named Pico Turquino. […]
A new study suggests that comets likely brought water to Earth billions of years ago.
Comets probably delivered Earth its water billions of years ago, new study reveals (Image Credit: Space.com) Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it’s hard to miss that roughly 70% of our planet’s surface is covered in the stuff. Thus, understanding where Earth’s water came from […]
More than 10,000 supernovae recorded by the innovative Zwicky Transient Facility.
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 […]