Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA has confirmed that one of its greatest ever missions, Voyager 1, is back in business with communications restored following an incident in October that had led to the veteran spacefarer losing its voice. Now 47 years […]
‘Cataclysmic’ solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal (Image Credit: Space.com) Earth is no stranger to solar storms. Just this year we’ve been bombarded with storms, some so powerful they’ve triggered jaw-dropping auroras deep into mid-latitudes. Modern technology ensures that very little goes unnoticed. A fleet of […]
Space Force awards Raytheon $196.7 million for additional work on GPS ground control system (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Raytheon a $196.7 million contract extension for the Global Positioning […]
‘Impossible’ black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope may finally have an explanation (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have long been puzzled by supermassive black holes that seem to have fully formed in the earliest epochs of the universe. Now, a new paper suggests that these monster black holes may have […]
Watch a mesmerizing simulation of the sun’s behavior from NASA (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Even today, our best scientists wrestle to understand the sun’s complex behavior — yet it’s incredibly valuable to decipher the patterns that drive our star’s activity. Those patterns can have a profound impact on our world. Earth’s weather […]
The fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens, new paper suggests (Image Credit: Space.com) An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the galaxy, and the best way to do that is by steering their binary star system, a researcher proposes in a new paper. Long-lived civilizations […]
The Nikon Z7 II is brilliant for astrophotography and it now has a huge $1003 saving in this Black Friday camera deal (Image Credit: Space.com) Amazon has dropped the Nikon Z7 II mirrorless camera to one of its lowest-ever prices in this incredible Black Friday deal. It comes bundled with the FTZ […]
Astronauts Unpack Cargo From Stinky Russian Spacecraft, Despite Troubling Odor (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) The hatch between a Russian cargo ship and the International Space Station (ISS) is finally open after a foul stench initially prompted astronauts to seal it off. The good news is, the smell has not lingered and NASA may […]
Webb observations explore the Westerlund 1 star cluster (Image Credit: Phys.org) RGB NIRCam image of Westerlund 1. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.13051 An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a supermassive Galactic open cluster known as Westerlund 1. Results of the observational campaign, presented […]
Investigating how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying. The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple […]
