Hubble Space Telescope: Celebrating 33 Years of Cosmic Discovery
The Hubble Space Telescope just marked its 33rd year in orbit around the Earth with a remarkable gift for us all — an awe-inspiring new…
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Humanity’s Outpost in Space: Partners Pledge Extension of the International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) partners have committed to extending its operations, with the United States, Japan, Canada, and European Space Agency (ESA) countries supporting…
Sticky Situation: Critical Antenna on ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Fails To Deploy
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has encountered a deployment issue with its Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna. The issue, potentially caused by…
Solar Power in Space: Astronauts Conclude Historic Power Boosting Spacewalk
NASA’s Steve Bowen and UAE’s Sultan Alneyadi successfully completed a 7-hour spacewalk to prepare for the installation of new solar arrays on the ISS. Despite…
Defying the Eddington Limit: NASA Unveils the Secret Behind Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources
These objects are more than 100 times brighter than they should be. Observations by NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope support a possible solution to this puzzle….
Scary Barbie: Supermassive Black Hole Tears Apart a Giant Star With “Terrifying” Energy
Uncovering a star’s demise: Supermassive black hole tears apart a giant star in a display brighter, more energetic, and longer lasting than any observed before….
Expedition 69 Crew GO for U.S. Spacewalk, Next Roscosmos Spacewalk in the Pipeline
Expedition 69 crew members, NASA’s Stephen Bowen and UAE’s Sultan Alneyadi, are preparing for a Friday spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system….
SOHO Chases Asteroid’s Tail – Unmasks “Rock Comet” Phaethon’s Sodium Glow
The SOHO observatory has challenged previous theories about Phaethon, a ‘rock comet’ linked to the Geminid meteor shower, by suggesting that its brightness and tail…
Icy Moonquakes: Explaining the Mysterious Smooth Terrain of Icy Moons
A new NASA study offers an explanation of how quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn….
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer: Juice’s First Sip of Science From Space
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully deployed its magnetometer boom (J-MAG), now actively collecting magnetic field data. The initial data suggests a successful…
Astrophysicists Uncover the First Bubble in an Intergalactic Stew
A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reports that a team of international researchers, led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and…
Astronauts Prep for Critical Spacewalk in the Midst of Advanced Microgravity Research
NASA and UAE astronauts are preparing for a critical spacewalk to route power cables and retrieve a communications antenna on the ISS, as part of…
Shedding Light on Darkness: Historic First Direct Image of a Black Hole Emitting a Powerful Jet
In a historic first, astronomers have simultaneously imaged the shadow and jet of the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87, providing new insights into how…
Webb Glitch: Issue With Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)
A discrepancy was found in the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI Medium Resolution Spectroscopy mode, with reduced throughput at the longest wavelengths. NASA and partners…
Massive Black Holes and “Glue” Particles – Physicists Uncover a Remarkable Correspondence
Physicists have demonstrated that black holes and the dense state of gluons, which are the “glue” particles responsible for holding nuclear matter together, have similar…
Igniting Unrivaled Brilliance: Astronomers Solve 60-Year Mystery of Quasars – The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe – by discovering that they are…
Sodium Surprise: Asteroid’s Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust
Scientists discovered that asteroid Phaethon, the source of the Geminid meteor shower, has a tail made of sodium, not dust. This finding challenges 14 years…
A Surprising Result – Making Better Measurements of the Composition of Galaxies
A problem that has plagued astronomers working in the infrared has been resolved through a study utilizing data from both terrestrial and sky-based telescopes. The…
