The Sky Today on Saturday, September 5: Titan near Saturn
Back to Article List Saturn’s biggest, brightest moon is once again near the ringed planet today and tomorrow…
Nasa is testing a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be recycled |
Image: AI representation of a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be…
Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon
A Mars probe from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) may answer some longstanding questions about the Red…
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to give live lecture from space
Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members will deliver a live lecture…
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a “fossil record” dating back to the formation of the…
German company launches rocket as Europe enters satellite race | News
Isar Aerospace says its 28-metre-long Spectrum rocket blasted off into space from Andøya spaceport in Arctic Norway. Published…
Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks up in rare retrograde orbit
HELSINKI — A Chinese satellite launched into an unusual orbit early this year has suffered an apparent fragmentation…
Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it’s much wider than they thought
The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental…
SpaceX Dragon Leak Delays NASA’s Next Astronaut Launch
The Milky Way appears in the vastness of space behind the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the…
Cassini logged 67 crossings of the funnel where the solar wind reaches Saturn, and after the count was divided by how long the spacecraft spent looking, the peak sat in the afternoon instead of at noon where Earth’s cusp sits — three crossings turned up past dusk
Archived Cassini magnetometer and plasma-spectrometer data from 2004 to 2010 hold 67 crossings of Saturn’s magnetospheric cusp, and…
Spacecraft Settles for Photos of NASA’s Sinking Telescope
A private spacecraft that was supposed to supply a lifeline to NASA’s Swift Observatory managed to get…
No telescope needed: September’s night sky is about to put on a show
September brings brilliant Venus, the Harvest Moon, an equinox, and several easy-to-spot celestial sights in the night sky.…