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Chinese private rocket launches 1st satellite for international customer (Image Credit: Space.com) Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space announced that it successfully launched 15 satellites into Earth orbit, including one for the Sultanate of Oman. CAS Space’s Kinetica-1 (also known as Lijian-1) solid rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center […]
James Webb Space Telescope finds galaxies pointing toward a dark matter alternative (Image Credit: Space.com) A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our universe appear much larger and brighter than expected, suggesting they formed early and grew rapidly — […]
Mysterious, city-size ‘centaur’ comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption (Image Credit: Space.com) A mysterious volcanic comet has just reawoken, unleashing four major eruptions in less than 48 hours and spraying out enough of its icy guts to make the city-size object appear almost 300 times brighter than normal, researchers […]
Open Gateway: Step into mock lunar orbit habitat at Space Center Houston (Image Credit: Space.com) The public can now step into the future of lunar exploration by entering an early mockup for astronaut accommodations around the moon. The “ground prototype” for what evolved into part of NASA’s lunar orbit Gateway is now […]
Ariane 6 upper stage visits ESA’s temple of boom (Image Credit: Phys.org) This picture shows the LEAF with its doors open after testing, the facility has half-a-meter thick walls and doors to contain the barrage of noise emitted when active. Credit: ESA–A. Conigli The upper stage for Europe’s newest rocket Ariane 6 […]
Happy New Year on Mars (Image Credit: Phys.org) To mark 20 years of ESA’s Mars Express, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) team has produced a new global colour mosaic: Mars as never seen before. The mosaic reveals the planet’s surface colour and composition in spectacular detail. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Michael 12 […]
New research challenges dark matter theory in galaxy formation (Image Credit: Phys.org) Protogalaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data […]
Astronomers investigate long-term variability of blazar AO 0235+164 (Image Credit: Phys.org) Comparison of the AO 0235+164 R-magnitudes taken with both optical telescopes (x-axis: Zeiss-1000, y-axis: AS-500/2). Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.01497 Astronomers have performed a comprehensive multiwavelength study of an extremely variable blazar known as AO 0235+164. Results of the new study, […]
Right now, the sun is far more active than predicted—and small satellites are paying the price (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. That was always going to happen. In fact, Binar means “fireball” in […]
Scientists found ‘nitriles’ in an interstellar cloud — here’s why that could be huge (Image Credit: Space.com) In the Taurus molecular cloud, one of the closest stellar nurseries to Earth, scientists found two nitrile-containing molecules — and this is incredibly interesting because these very molecules could reveal information about the origins of […]
