Haunting Hubble telescope image captures cosmic cycle of destruction and creation — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: The nebula LHA 120-N44 Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellation…
In 2024, ESA flew bouncing hexapods to 256 km on a Swedish sounding rocket; six minutes of microgravity showed how complex grains collide and transfer energy
On November 26, 2024, a sounding rocket launched from a spaceport in northern Sweden, carrying an experiment that…
India needs to launch the space act it keeps scrubbing
India’s growing space industry needs an umbrella Space Act for legal support. India needs a Space Act. It…
Meet Eknath Vasant Chitnis: The man who helped build ISRO, recognized the potential of a young APJ Abdul Kalam and brought satellite TV to Indian villages
Eknath was born on July 25, 1925, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India’s space programme has produced some of the…
US study warns a 1-in-250-year solar storm could cut power to 5 million, cost $1.8 billion a day
New research estimates the devastating effects an extreme geomagnetic storm would have on the United States and how…
Solar system’s smallest planet shrinking faster than we thought
There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far…
Andromeda is visible from 2.5 million light-years because the light of hundreds of billions of stars blends together. But an Earth-like planet there would be roughly ten billion times fainter than its own star and separated from it by only about 1.3 microarcseconds—far beyond the direct-imaging ability of any existing telescope.
Andromeda can be found without a telescope under a sufficiently dark sky, even though its light has travelled…
A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy
After decades of observations, an international effort led by researchers at the University of Queensland’s School of Mathematics…
Five night sky events to look forward to this autumn
Another meteor shower arrives later in November, with the Leonids expected to peak around 17 November. The Leonids…
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
A spacecraft that weighed 721.9 kilograms — 1,592 pounds, roughly the mass of a small car — lifted…
A New Design For A Plasma Engine Fuels On Only Thin Air
Choosing what orbit to put a satellite in always comes with trade-offs. When it comes to Very Low…
Saudi Arabia’s stc Group orders small GEO satellite in another Astranis Block 3 reshuffle
TAMPA, Fla. — Saudi telecoms giant stc Group has replaced one of two small geostationary satellites Mexican telco…