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Earth sure looks spooky in these ‘hyperspectral’ images from Europe’s Hera asteroid probe (Image Credit: Space.com) A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet to capture spooky views […]
Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires (Image Credit: Space.com) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Loizos Heracleous is a Professor of Strategy at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. SpaceX has launched […]
Hubble and Webb Team Up to Reveal ‘Bloody Eyes’ Glaring at Earth (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) NASA’s space telescopes have captured a tale of cosmic horror in the making, two galaxies slowly creeping on each other before violently devouring one another in a cannibalistic merger. The Webb and Hubble space telescopes joined forces to deliver the […]
Happy Dark Matter Day! Meet the usual — and unusual — suspects in this cosmic mystery (Image Credit: Space.com) Though Halloween will undoubtedly take the spotlight today, there’s another spooky event worth celebrating. Thursday (Oct. 31) marks this year’s Dark Matter Day as well, a time during which scientists celebrate the hunt for the universe’s […]
Dark matter might live in a dense haze around stellar corpses (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists think it’s possible that shrouds of hypothetical particles called “axions” could surround extreme, dead stars called “neutron stars.” If true, this could bring us one step closer to solving the mystery of dark matter. That’s the conclusion reached by a […]
Dark Wolf Nebula shows off a howling good view in awesome Halloween image (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The patrons of the Slaughtered Lamb, the traditional Yorkshire pub with some striking decor in John Landis’ American Werewolf in London, may want to keep their werewolf on the down low, but the European Southern Observatory (ESO) saw […]
India targets 2028 for Chandrayaan-4 sample-return mission to moon’s south pole (Image Credit: Space.com) India is eyeing a 2028 launch for its Chandrayaan-4 moon sample-return mission, followed by an uncrewed lander and rover in collaboration with Japan. S. Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), discussed the upcoming missions during an invited […]
North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missile to space, reaches record altitude (Image Credit: Space.com) North Korea reportedly reached space on Wednesday with its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched in nearly a year. The ICBM‘s launch on Oct. 30, just days before the U.S. federal election on Nov. 5, was likely not coincidental, according to […]
Stare into the ‘blood-soaked eyes’ of 2 spooky galaxies in new Hubble, JWST images (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Two of the world’s most powerful space telescopes have spied a “spooky pair” of galaxies in deep space, staring out like a pair of “blood-soaked” eyes — and just in time for Halloween. The James Webb Space […]
Decrepit Voyager 1 Probe Runs Into Trouble Again (Image Credit: futurism-com) But it keeps on ticking. Radio Silence The Voyager 1 probe refuses to die. But ye olde spacecraft has had some scares during the more recent portions of its 47-and-counting year journey, and NASA engineers are constantly checking in to make sure it doesn’t […]
