The photo provided by the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection shows fragments collected from a meteorite which fell in front of a resident’s home in Marshfield, P.E.I., Canada, in July…
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US grounds SpaceX’s Starship after fiery mid-air explosion
In this handout image courtesy of Greg Blee, debris from the SpaceX Starship is seen in the sky near Providenciales, Turks and Caicos on January 16, 2025. The United States…
Space Force to march in Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, a 1st for the new military branch
On Monday (Jan. 20), the U.S. Space Force will participate in a presidential inauguration for the first time. Representing the military branch will be 45 Guardians, the official name for…
A seed-sized signal amplifier chip could boost space communications
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography Smaller than a strawberry seed, this tiny signal amplifier was produced by the European Space Agency to fill a missing link in current technology, helping to make…
An even ghostlier neutrino may rule the universe
One of the Daya Bay detectors. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Strange “right-handed” neutrinos may be responsible for all the matter in the universe, according to new research.…
Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Telescope through an interstellar gap
The spaces between stars in our galaxy are enigmatic realms filled with vast, diffuse clouds of gas and dust. These clouds tend to remain invisible — but the James Webb…
The first supernovae flooded the early universe with water, research suggests
This artist’s impression shows CR7 a very distant galaxy discovered using ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains…
Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride
“We astronauts are here today to salute all those who made our trip into space possible. They have permitted us to see the Earth as a precious blue jewel in…
Here’s what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander
Firefly Aerospace’s first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is sharing a payload bay…
Image: Earth in far-ultraviolet
Credit: NASA On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white…
