Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever seen, and it shines with the light of a trillion suns
Using the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 31 black-hole-powered quasars…
NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic…
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 Starlink satellites to orbit
SpaceX is nothing if not ambitious. Elon Musk‘s company just filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications…
Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Two new reports from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluate data from the Umbra X-band Synthetic…
Ultra-Black Coating Could Mitigate Light Pollution Caused by Satellites
There’s no doubt about it: the skies are filling up with satellites that regularly pass overhead, creating light…
LEGO Hubble Space Telescope Set Celebrates Three Iconic Hubble Photos
I have loved LEGO since I was a child, just coming to grips with fine motor control. I…
‘Reckless’ space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism
Environmental and scientific organizations are banding together to demand federal environmental reviews of space-based data center projects, which…
‘Astronomers have to revise estimates’: The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized
Two of the Milky Way‘s gigantic spiral arms appear to be much farther away than we realized, scientists…
A Chinese Spacecraft Captures First Image of Quasi-Moon
This week, astronomers are seeing double. Just a day after Japan’s spacecraft flew by a strange, two-lobed asteroid…
SpaceX Plans to Send ‘Thousands’ to the Moon and Mars In 10 Years, Musk Claims
Topline SpaceX Elon Musk predicted SpaceX would send humans back to the Moon and Mars in the next…
A “Smart Ruler” Could Help Swarms of Space Telescopes Image Exoplanets
We’ve talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image…
Satellites in tandem reveal 30 years of Antarctic ice flow
Applications 09/07/2026 71 views 2 likes Thirty years after the European Space Agency first demonstrated the power of…