An artist’s depiction of the relative sizes of the sun, a low mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter, and the Earth. Sizes are to scale, but distances are not. Credit:…
Category: Space
Inside New Brunswick’s ambituous plan for the world’s densest dark-sky corridor
As a crescent moon sank into the forest, I looked high above the cabin behind me to see just how dark it was getting. Staring back at me was the…
Scientific paper details what’s known about the third-ever interstellar object
The discovery images of 31/ATLAS. Credit: ATLAS Chile When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system,…
NASA SLS rocket booster spews fire photo of the day for July 10, 2025
Northrop Grumman and NASA conducted a dramatic static-fire test of a booster for an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket last week. According to NASA, the five-segment booster rocket fired for…
The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought
Credit: The Aquarius simulation, the Virgo Consortium/Dr Mark Lovell The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to…
Trump names Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as interim NASA administrator
NASA is under new management after an announcement from President Trump late Wednesday evening named current Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as the agency’s interim administrator. The announcement, posted on…
Trump taps transport chief to be interim NASA administrator
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has been tapped to serve as interim administrator of US space agency NASA. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to…
The Sony A1 has almost $1500 off for Prime Day
Amazon Prime Day is full of claims of the biggest discounts and the best deals, but I think this deal on the Sony A1 might just be the winner so…
Image: Hubble captures stellar duo
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this image…
