Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking a step toward decoding our star’s elusive behavior…
Category: Astronomy
NASA picks SpaceX to launch Pandora exoplanet mission
A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound…
What was the mysterious space signal scientists discovered in 2024? Here are some possibilities
Having launched on January 9, 2024 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Einstein Probe detected several new events during its commissioning phase. Last October, Yuan Weimin, the spacecraft’s principle…
Auction offers Neil Armstrong’s reply to NASA engineer’s Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his handwritten letter, it was too late. The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent…
NASA will beam Super Bowl LIX to orbit for astronauts aboard the International Space Station
Are you ready to catch the big game? On Sunday (Feb. 9), across the United States and around the world, Americans and American football fans will tune in to watch…
Supernova ‘rains’ could give rise to mysteriously magnetic dead stars
Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants called neutron stars, and these stars gain tremendously powerful magnetic fields when matter ejected from during their explosive supernova deaths falls back…
What brand of golf ball did Alan Shepard hit off the moon? The world may never know
Carlos Villagomez owns a golf ball that he believes was flown to the moon. If indeed it was, he may also hold the answer to a more than 50-year-old bit…
New ‘Star Wars: The Mask of Fear’ novel stars Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrera (interview)
Galavanting through the galaxy far, far away with seemingly effortless literary ease, prolific “Star Wars” author, Alexander Freed has been catapulted to the top tier of sci-fi writers. He is…
SpaceX to launch water-hunting moon probe ‘Lunar Trailblazer’ on Feb. 26
LITTLETON, Colorado — A university-led lunar orbiter designed to pinpoint the location of ice or liquid water trapped in rocks on the moon’s surface is nearly ready for takeoff. The…
Blue Origin to launch New Shepard moon-gravity mission on Feb. 4 after glitch
Blue Origin is now targeting Tuesday (Feb. 4) for its first-ever moon-gravity mission. The company first tried to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan.…
