NRO to expand use of HawkEye 360’s satellite intelligence
WASHINGTON — The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded HawkEye 360 a new contract to provide commercial radio-frequency intelligence,…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth
(This is Part 2 of a series on what we can actually find on an exoplanet. Read Part…
SpaceX rocket splashes down off Christmas Island, becomes ‘talk of the town’
A large space rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX is being towed to the shores of Christmas Island…
NASA tests first-of-its-kind spacecraft that navigates without GPS
NASA’s Starling mission has demonstrated a first-of-its-kind navigation system that lets a spacecraft determine its position in orbit…
Watch European astronaut make history during spacewalk today
Sophie Adenot will make spaceflight history today (Aug. 18). The European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut will become the…
MOTHRA Shows Us A Star Being Recycled in the Helix Nebula
Most stars end their lives not in cataclysmic supernova explosions, but with a final exhalation instead. Main sequence…
Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2392 (aka. the Lion Nebula), so-named because of its…
Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago
Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across…
SpaceXAI and Southaven officials developing plans for new first responder training facility | News
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. – SpaceXAI and Southaven are developing plans for a new first responder training center. In a…
Massive Exoplanets Could Form Around Supermassive Black Holes
You’ve read it, heard it in casual conversations, and seen it in TV shows and movies: black holes…
The JWST Little Red Dots Could Be 'Black Hole Stars' – Universe Today
The JWST Little Red Dots Could Be ‘Black Hole Stars’ Universe TodayBlack hole star: Astronomers discover a brand-new type…
JWST found water-altered clay minerals on two of Neptune’s tiny inner moons and its rings that probably formed deep inside much larger icy worlds — compelling evidence that today’s moons may be rubble from Neptune’s original satellite system, destroyed when the captured moon Triton tore through it billions of years ago.
The clay is the clue. Larissa and Galatea are two small, dark moons tucked close to Neptune, where…