Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies (Image Credit: Space.com) Every day, invisible to the human eye, thousands of enigmatic flashes of cosmic energy known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) erupt across the sky, releasing as much energy in milliseconds as the sun does in […]
China’s space agency brought the 1st lunar far side samples to Earth this year — here’s what’s next (Image Credit: Space.com) China’s space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang’e 6 lunar far side samples. Chang’e 6 launched in May this year. The complex, […]
Australian company Gilmour Space gets country’s 1st orbital launch license (Image Credit: Space.com) Australia is poised to be the next country to take the giant leap into orbit. Aussie-based company Gilmour Space received the country’s first orbital launch license this week, as it prepares for the first test flight of its Eris […]
The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega’s Missing Planets (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) In 1984, astronomers spotted a rotating platter of gas and dust around the nearby star Vega, providing them with their first look at the stuff from which planets are born. Now, a closer look at that same star has revealed […]
Giant telescope’s own powerful radiation may have contributed to collapse (Image Credit: Mashable) Powerful electromagnetic radiation from an enormous radio telescope in Puerto Rico may have fast-tracked structural damage that led to the instrument’s collapse in 2020, a new report says. For over a half-century, the Arecibo Observatory‘s 1,000-foot-wide telescope, a giant […]
An object struck a satellite in Earth’s orbit, leaving a hole (Image Credit: Mashable) An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth‘s orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 satellite, launched in 2022 and designed to host several […]
NASA astronauts won’t say which one of them got sick after almost eight months in space (Image Credit: Phys.org) The SpaceX crew of the Dragon spacecraft, from left, cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, pilot Michael Barratt, commander Matthew Dominick and mission specialist Jeanette Epps gather for a photo after arriving at the Kennedy Space […]
An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd ‘imminent impactor’ of 2024 (Image Credit: Space.com) Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth’s atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However, on the bright side, […]
China planning to build its own version of SpaceX’s Starship (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX continues to be a font of inspiration for Chinese aerospace engineers. At least one Chinese company is already working to create its own version of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9, which has launched more than 100 orbital missions this […]
4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happened (Image Credit: Space.com) What does the discovery of a binary pulsar in 1974, the discovery of the first exoplanets, and the most powerful message humans have ever sent out into space all have in common? They all happened at […]
