One year ago today, a total solar eclipse graced the skies of North America, as the moon fully blocked out the sun a narrow slice of Earth, bringing sudden darkness…
Category: Astronomy
Watch Soyuz rocket launch new US-Russian crew to the ISS early April 8
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Soyuz MS-27 Launch – YouTube Watch On Three astronauts will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday morning (April 8), and you can watch…
How bacteria could help build and maintain cities on the moon
If all goes to plan, scientists may someday begin building outposts on the moon — and some experts believe that these outposts could be constructed with bricks made out of…
Meet ‘Nighthawk’: Mars helicopter mission could be big leap for exploration
The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a revolutionary role in Mars exploration. Now, NASA is thinking ahead to bigger and better things. On the back of the…
JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it ‘Big Wheel’
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the…
What’s the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?
As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations of young exoplanets with older ones could reveal vital clues about how…
Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. But given that the…
2 decades of Hubble Space Telescope data track changing seasons on Uranus
An analysis of two decades of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects…
Cosmic rays may be the elusive spark for lightning here on Earth
Cosmic rays may offer an out-of-this-world answer to a long-standing mystery about lightning on Earth, a new study suggests. Thunderstorms are exceedingly common; a staggering 3 million lightning strikes occur…
SpaceX’s Fram2 astronaut flight over Earth’s poles will be the 1st to grow mushrooms in space
Astronauts will attempt to grow mushrooms in space for the first time during SpaceX’s upcoming Fram2 mission. Launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as Monday (March 31),…
