SpaceX’s Starship turns after its launch from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. The Federal Aviation Administration is being sued by wildlife and environmental groups over SpaceX’s…
Category: Space
The Young Cluster of Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe
An image of many oval and spiral shaped galaxies. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Takahiro Morishita (IPAC); Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Astronomers have looked back in time to the early…
A supermassive black hole and its jet, all in a single picture
This image shows the jet and shadow of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy together for the first time. The observations were obtained with a set…
China’s Mars rover finds signs of recent water in sand dunes
This Aug. 26, 2003, image made available by NASA shows Mars as it lines up with the Sun and the Earth. A new study suggests water on Mars may be…
Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts
Astronomers from McGill University are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky come from far…
Metal-poor stars are more life-friendly
Stars that contain comparatively large amounts of heavy elements provide less favourable conditions for the emergence of complex life than metal-poor stars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for…
Key radar antenna stuck on Europe’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft
A critical antenna is jammed on a Jupiter-bound spacecraft launched two weeks ago, the European Space Agency reported Friday. The 52-foot (16-meter) radar antenna on Juice unfolded only one-third of…
Zhurong rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars
(a) Topographic contour map of the environs where the trace is located. The coordinate system is east-north-up (ENU) local Cartesian coordinate and the origin is that of the rover coordinate…
CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers
While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it’s tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding.…
Out of gas in orbit? This US space company is here to help
Daniel Faber, CEO of Orbit Fab, says in-orbit refueling will free up a key factor in rocket launches: weight. The US company Orbit Fab is aiming to produce the go-to…
