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New NASA coronagraph will measure temperature, speed of solar wind from ISS (Image Credit: Space.com) On Earth, we have weather because we have an atmosphere. Electromagnetic radiation from the sun heats up molecules and gases in the atmosphere, which causes the dynamic weather systems that cover the globe on a daily basis. […]
US military test-launches unarmed nuclear missile on election night (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The United States military test-launched another unarmed nuclear-capable missile last night (Nov. 6). The launch took place from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:01 p.m. local time (2:01 EDT or 0601 GMT on Nov. 6). A team […]
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to fly by Venus today before historic sun encounter (Image Credit: Space.com) Today, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus — the spacecraft’s final maneuver around the amber planet — in a flyby that will nudge the probe on a trajectory that will take […]
Supernova hides in new Hubble Telescope galaxy ‘light show’ image (photo) (Image Credit: Space.com) A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, called NGC 1672, is a barred spiral galaxy located […]
NASA’s Chandra X-ray spacecraft finds ‘danger zones’ around stars (Image Credit: Space.com) Using NASA’s space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered “danger zones” for planets that are forming around young stars. The team found these treacherous regions by performing long-term observations of an object known as […]
Scientists just found a mind-boggling object in deep space (Image Credit: Mashable) NASA says it best: “Neutron Stars Are Weird!“ They are extraordinarily compact. Just a sugar cube-sized piece of this extremely dense material — the remnants of a collapsed, exploded star — weighs 1 billion tons. They’re known to rotate quickly, […]
Scientists have figured out why Martian soil is so crusty (Image Credit: Phys.org) Artist’s concept of InSight “taking the pulse of Mars”. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech On November 26, 2018, NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission landed on Mars. This was a major milestone in Mars exploration since it was the […]
Another way to extract energy from black holes? (Image Credit: Phys.org) Illustration of a powerful black hole and its magnetic field. Credit: L. Calçada/ESO The gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange. It is so powerful that it warps space and time back upon itself, and it is so strange that […]
Viewpoint: Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’ (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday—but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62. Most people remember him as the co-creator and host of the 1980 “Cosmos” television series, […]
Next-generation space materials blast off for tests on ISS (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: NASA A new generation of space materials left Earth on November 5 as they head to the International Space Station (ISS) to undergo testing in the brutal conditions of low Earth orbit. Developed at the University of Bristol, these high-performance materials could […]
