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Still kickin’ since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager mission keeps exploring (Image Credit: Phys.org) This archival photo shows engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft on March 23, 1977. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two spacecraft from […]
Hubble and Webb are the dream team—don’t break them up, researchers say (Image Credit: Phys.org) This image of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was taken on May 19, 2009 after deployment during Servicing Mission 4. Credit: NASA Many people think of the James Webb Space Telescope as a sort of Hubble 2. They […]
New report details what happened to the Arecibo Observatory (Image Credit: Phys.org) The Arecibo Radio Telescope. Though it’s decommissioned now, Arecibo Data may explain 1977’s mysterious Wow! Signal. Credit: UCF In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter, Arecibo’s spherical […]
Examining how stellar threats impact the habitable zone of exoplanets (Image Credit: Phys.org) This image from the research shows the sky positions of exoplanet-hosting stars projected on a Molleweide map. HZS are denoted by yellow-green circles, while the remaining population of exoplanets is represented by gray circles. The studied sample of 84 […]
News Outlets Are Falsely Reporting That a NASA Astronaut Is Still in the Hospital (Image Credit: futurism-com) Despite ample reporting to the contrary, multiple news outlets are still running misleading new articles claiming that a NASA astronaut is still in the hospital after returning from the International Space Station on a SpaceX […]
China’s space station experiments are back on Earth (Image Credit: Space.com) Space specialists in China have begun to assess experiment samples brought back by the Shenzhou-18 crew that touched down Nov. 4 in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu parachuted back to Earth after their […]
SpaceX launching 23 more Starlink satellites from Florida on Nov. 7 (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 7) from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force […]
‘Fastest-feeding’ black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics? (Image Credit: Space.com) The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole’s voracious appetite, which has […]
SpaceX targeting Nov. 18 for next Starship megarocket launch (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly for the sixth time ever less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk‘s company announced today (Nov. 6) that it’s targeting Nov. 18 for the next Starship test flight, […]
Sun erupts with powerful X2.3 solar flare, triggers radio blackouts (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The sun erupted with an X2.3-class solar flare this morning, triggering radio blackouts The X-class solar flare was released from a sunspot region AR 3883 at 8:40 a.m. ET (1340 UTC) on Wednesday morning (Nov. 6). Sunspots are […]
