The countdown to the holidays is on, and if you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, NOAA has a list of the locations most likely to have one. The National Oceanic…
Category: Space
Clever trick to cook young stars detected for first time—astronomers highlight magnetic fields as the missing ingredient
Astronomers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as…
NASA space telescopes give Christmas Tree Cluster a festive makeover (photos)
We’ve all looked for shapes in Earth’s clouds. But what about shapes in space clouds? If you glance at NGC 2264, you’ll see very quickly why this cluster of stars…
Distant blazar discovery supports rapid black hole formation in the early universe
Artist’s impression of the bright, very early active galactic nucleus that was found by Bañados and his colleagues, which has fundamental implications for black hole growth in the earliest billion…
Private Japanese rocket explodes after liftoff in its 2nd launch failure of 2024 (photos)
Japanese startup Space One lost another rocket today (Dec. 18) when its Kairos 2 launch vehicle failed shortly after liftoff. Space One was aiming to be the first private Japanese…
SpaceX completes 3 rocket launches, 1 Dragon landing in 22 hours
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a span of less than 22 hours, SpaceX managed three Falcon 9 rocket launches and one landing of a Dragon spacecraft. It flew a Department…
You ain’t seen nothing yet! ‘The Outer Worlds 2’ gets wild new trailer at The Game Awards
The Outer Worlds 2: First Gameplay Trailer – YouTube Watch On Obsidian Entertainment’s satirical sci-fi video game, “The Outer Worlds,” launched back in 2019, and now, thanks to The Game…
Jovian vortex hunters contribute to storm study
A set of vortices—spinning storms—found by Jovian Vortex Hunters. Data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno mission. Credit: NASA Jumping Jupiter! The results are in, storm chasers! Thanks to…
James Webb Space Telescope witnesses Firefly Sparkle galaxy ‘being assembled brick by brick’ (image, video)
A relic galaxy has been uncovered from the early universe, revealing new clues about what our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have looked like billions of years ago. In…
DAVINCI mission’s many ‘firsts’ aim to unlock Venus’s hidden secrets
An artist’s visualization of DAVINCI’s descent probe lying on the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio NASA’s DAVINCI—Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging—mission embodies…
