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Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images (Image Credit: Space.com) A group of school kids and college students discovered that a Russian island in the Arctic has recently vanished after comparing satellite images of the area for an educational project. Mesyatsev Island was a slab of […]
The final supermoon of 2024 rises Nov. 15 as November’s Full Beaver Moon (Image Credit: Space.com) The last of four consecutive supermoons in 2024 rises this week. November’s Full Beaver Moon will rise on Friday (Nov. 15), just in time for those willing to stay up late for some weekend skywatching. The […]
The sun’s poles may have powerful magnetic tornadoes (Image Credit: Space.com) The sun may have swirling polar vortices similar to those on Earth, but powered by a very different source, according to a new study. Current observations of the sun are limited to a face-on view, obscuring what can be seen transpiring […]
SpaceX rolls Starship spacecraft to pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX is gearing up for the sixth test flight of its Starship megarocket, which is now less than a week away. Elon Musk‘s company has rolled the sixth Starship vehicle’s 165-foot-tall (50-meter-tall) upper stage out to the […]
UFO whistleblowers tell Congress ‘we are not alone in the cosmos’ (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) UFOs came to Washington again today. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth” at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. at 11:30 […]
Who Moved This Satellite? SkyNet-1A Is Halfway Around the World From Where It Should Be (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A satellite that’s been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be. Instead of spending the afterlife in an orbital graveyard, the communications satellite is now orbiting […]
NASA dealing with aging ISS and spacewalk hardware: ‘None of our spacesuits are spring chickens’ (Image Credit: Space.com) The commander of SpaceX’s Crew-8 astronaut mission says that NASA continues to prioritize safety while co-managing an aging space station. The International Space Station (ISS) and the spacesuit that spacewalking NASA astronauts wear, known […]
Webb telescope sees world that could reek of burnt matches and rotten eggs (Image Credit: Mashable) Astronomers have found a world outside the solar system that could be a stink bomb, with air that smells of rotten eggs and burnt matches. The exoplanet would owe its signature fragrance to sulfur dioxide and […]
Trump appoints SpaceX’s Elon Musk to help head regulation-slashing ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (Image Credit: Space.com) Elon Musk will have a place in the second Trump administration. The SpaceX founder and CEO will lead the new “Department of Government Efficiency” along with entrepreneur and politician Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump announced on […]
Satellite-servicing startup Starfish Space raises $29 million (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — Satellite-servicing startup Starfish Space announced Nov. 13 it raised $29 million in a new funding round led by Shield Capital. Other participants […]
