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This Nebula Blasts Particles Into Space. Also, It Looks Like a Guitar (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) NASA’s space telescopes tuned into an epic cosmic rock show, capturing new images of a space guitar that’s billowing in the wake of an erratic neutron star as it releases a flame-like streak across the cosmos. Think […]
Unreal Black Friday VR headset deals: Save up to $400 on various models in this HTC site-wide sale (Image Credit: Space.com) It may seem like a dream, or an alternate reality, but HTC has just released loads of deals on its VR headsets this Black Friday. You can get virtually hundreds of […]
Earth’s ‘second moon’ is just visiting its cosmic parents for Thanksgiving (Image Credit: Space.com) Earth’s “second moon” won’t be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems the asteroid was paying a visit to its relatives. Analysis of the asteroid 2024 PT5, which […]
SpaceX’s Starship will fly Lunar Outpost’s rover to the moon (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX’s Starship megarocket just added another moon mission to its docket. Colorado company Lunar Outpost announced today (Nov. 21) that it has chosen Starship to launch its new moon rover, known as Eagle, and land the wheeled vehicle on […]
Scientists watch hardcore object blasting energy beams into space (Image Credit: Mashable) A rapidly spinning, profoundly dense object is blasting a “flame-like” beam into space. It’s a type of neutron star — the remnants of a collapsed, exploded star so dense that just a sugar cube-sized piece of this extremely compact material […]
No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now (Image Credit: Mashable) Astronomers have been able to look at the sun and a handful of other stars in the Milky Way up close, thanks to modern advances in telescopes. But getting a detailed view of […]
Watch Blue Origin launch ‘Space Gal’ Emily Calandrelli, 5 others on tourism flight today (Image Credit: Space.com) Blue Origin will launch its ninth space tourism flight this morning (Nov. 22). The mission — known as NS-28, because it will be the 28th launch overall of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle — is […]
SpaceX’s 6th Starship megarocket launch looked amazing from space in astronaut and camera views (photo, video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The largest rocket ever built launched on its sixth test flight earlier this week, wowing spectators on the ground — and even some in space. SpaceX’s monstrous, 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket launched […]
Canada wants your help to name its 1st moon rover (Image Credit: Space.com) Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine. The Canadian Space Agency asked people around the world to pick from the semi-finalist names for the moon rover, which will launch […]
SpaceX and NASA show off how Starship will help astronauts land on the moon (images) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX and NASA have released new artwork detailing how the company’s Starship rocket might ferry Artemis astronauts to the surface of the moon. The renders show a variety of maneuvers and steps that SpaceX’s […]
