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Webb telescope finds hot young star Vega is actually quite lonely (Image Credit: Mashable) A little over a decade ago, astronomers found a large gap between two belts circling Vega, hinting that the nearby star probably hosts several exoplanets. Then in 2021, other researchers saw what they believed was perhaps a signal of a Neptune […]
X-class Halloween solar flare erupts from sun, causes radio blackouts (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The sun put on quite the spooktacular show on Halloween, firing off an X2.0 solar flare. A sunspot known as AR 3878 fired off the X-class flare at 5:20 p.m. EDT (2120 UTC) on Oct. 31, measuring in at X2.0. Sunspots […]
Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and ‘birth atoms’ (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have witnessed the titanic collision between two neutron stars that resulted in the birth of the smallest black hole ever seen and forged precious metals like gold, silver, and uranium. The team’s snapshot of this violent and […]
‘Alien signal’ sent from Mars decoded by father-daughter team (Image Credit: Space.com) In 2023, a coded message was beamed at Earth from Mars. After over a year, this simulated extraterrestrial signal was finally decoded. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Mars probe beamed the signal at us in May 2023 as part […]
China’s Shenzhou 19 astronauts take the reins of Tiangong space station (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) China’s Shenzhou 18 crew have passed the keys to the Tiangong space station to its new occupants. The Shenzhou 19 mission launched on a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China on Oct. 29 and arrived at […]
Facing Growing Threats, Space Industry Expands Its Cyber Warning Center (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) Nov. 1, 2024 | By Shaun Waterman Share Article The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a U.S. industry-run nonprofit that helps commercial space operators share data about cyberattacks and other threats, is expanding to the U.K. and other American allies, aiming […]
Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal (Image Credit: Space.com) Over the last few decades, planetary scientists have been steadily adding to the list of moons in our solar system that may harbor interior oceans either currently or at some point in their past. For the most part, […]
Explore Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa in NASA virtual tour (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA’s Europa Clipper probe is finally on its way to the icy ocean moon of Jupiter, but it’s going to take some time to get there — about six years. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait that long to get close-up looks […]
Sun erupts with X-class solar flare on Halloween, causes radio blackouts (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The sun put on quite the spooktacular show on Halloween, firing off an X2.0 solar flare. A sunspot known as AR 3878 fired off the X-class flare at 5:20 p.m. EDT (2120 UTC) on Oct. 31, measuring in at X2.0. […]
