Russian Anti-Satellite Weapon Test: What Happened and What To Do Now?
On November 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it…
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New Method Developed To Study Ions Around Comets in Space
One of a Pair: Hubble Space Telescope Peers Into a Beautiful Spiral Galaxy
Astronomers Discover Ancient “Failed Star” With Lithium Deposits Intact
Black Hole Star Destroyer: Scientists Fling Model Stars at a Virtual Black Hole to See Who Survives
Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded With Light
NASA’s DART Kinetic Impactor Spacecraft Launches in World’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission
Hubble Space Telescope Finds Flame Nebula’s Searing Stars May Halt Planet Formation
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Astronomers Find a Blazing Hot Planet That Orbits Its Star in Just 16 Hours!
Mercury is the speed champion in our Solar System. It orbits the Sun every 88 days, and its average speed is 47 km/s. Its average…
NASA’s Super Guppy Arrives in California With Key Component for Artemis Moon Mission
Crews transported the heat shield skin for a future mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft — via the agency’s Super Guppy oversize cargo transport aircraft —…
Webb – The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built – Will Look Back in Time to the Dark Ages of the Universe
Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Is Skimming Earth for a Gravity Assist – And It’s One of the Riskiest Planetary Flybys Ever
The chance that ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low. However, the risk is not…
Astronomers Have Discovered the Reason Behind the Mysterious Lack of Massive Black Holes in Telescope Data
Our telescopes have never detected a black hole more massive than twenty times the mass of the Sun. Nevertheless, we now know of their existence…
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: New Software, New Drill Target, and an Existential Question
A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven…
New Russian Docking Module Arrives at International Space Station
The five-ton Prichal docking module arrived at the International Space Station at 10:19 a.m. EST, propelled by a modified Russian Progress propulsion compartment. They docked…
Hubble Witnesses Bright Shock Wave of Colliding Gases in Running Man Nebula
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. Herbig-Haro objects are a rarely…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes a Record-Setting Swing by the Sun
Blazing along at space-record speeds that would get it from Earth to the Moon in under an hour, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 10th…