NASA just powered up Roman’s massive 300-megapixel camera
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached another major milestone in space. Mission teams have successfully powered…
Orlando Sentinel 150: Monday Memory of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s piggyback final flight from Florida – Orlando Sentinel
Fourteen years ago, Space Shuttle Endeavour left Kennedy Space Center on its way to its new home at…
These are the Hubble Space Telescope’s most spectacular images of our Solar System
The Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing spectacular views of our Universe since its launch in 1990, giving…
Bright centres of galaxies powered by black holes devouring space – and they’re the nearly as old as the Universe itself
Scientists have found 31 of the most ancient quasars ever recorded, including two dating back to when the…
Assam to get Isro’s advanced radar centre under Project Netra: What is it?
Assam is set to become home to a major space surveillance facility as the Indian Space Research Organisation…
China just launched four different rockets in 45 hours from three launch sites
China’s rapidly expanding space sector demonstrated its growing launch capacity last week, with four different orbital rockets lifting…
Starwatch: Autumnal equinox in northern hemisphere, spring in the south | Astronomy
The September or autumnal equinox takes place this week. It marks the astronomical beginning of autumn in the…
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
Modern communications satellites receive and retransmit signals, but NASA’s first successful one carried no communications transponder. Echo 1A, launched in 1960, was a 30-metre-wide aluminized balloon that relayed radio signals simply by reflecting them between ground stations.
The first successful spacecraft in NASA’s Echo programme was almost entirely empty. It carried no receiver to detect…
The Sun Is Physically Capable of Producing a “Superflare” According To A New Study
We have long known that the Sun is active. It “flares” quite often, sending huge amounts of energy…
El Dorado County observatory celebrates 20 years with free view of the moon
El Dorado County observatory celebrates 20 years with free view of the moon Placerville’s Community Observatory marked its…
A cosmic ‘burp’ may hold clues to how black holes grow – ctvnews.ca
A cosmic ‘burp’ may hold clues to how black holes grow ctvnews.ca‘Very messy eaters’: scientists solve the mystery of…