After completing final integration, Ball Aerospace technicians transport the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI) into Ball’s largest thermal vacuum chamber to begin environmental testing at a…
Category: Space
“1,000 Year-Old Alien Corpses” in Mexico: Simple Reason Why This is Not True
Recently, a news story about the alleged ancient ‘alien remains’ dating back 1,000 years appeared on multiple online websites. But if you are skeptical about this particular ‘discovery‘, you are…
The Lunar Alarm Clock: New Study Characterizes Regular Moonquakes
Every morning and afternoon, like clockwork, the surface of the Moon trembles with tiny “moonquakes.” Now, new analysis of seismic activity on the Moon has characterized these events and discovered…
Motion of stars near Milky Way’s central black hole is only predictable for a few hundred years
Simulation of the motions of stars around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. On the left are shown the orbits of the stars. These orbits have…
On the Road to Spotting Alien Life
The focal plane mask for the Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Each circular section contains multiple “masks” – carefully engineered, opaque obstructions designed to block starlight.…
Billion-light-year-wide ‘bubble of galaxies’ discovered
An artist’s representation of the ‘bubble of galaxies’ Ho’oleilana, which spans a billion light years. Astronomers have discovered the first “bubble of galaxies,” an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought…
XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays
An artist’s rendering of XRISM, a satellite that will take groundbreaking new readings of hot and energetic places in the universe. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab…
NASA’s Swift Learns a Trick, Spots a Snacking Black Hole
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly nibbling on a Sun-like star. The object heralds a new era of…
X-ray Mission Lifts Off To Study High-Energy Universe
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) lifted off on a H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 08:42 JST / 00:42…
