The date is April 1, 2471 B.C., and a total solar eclipse has forced night to fall during the day in Egypt. The sun has morphed into a lifeless black…
Category: Space
How NASA’s Perseverance is helping prepare astronauts for Mars
This graphic shows an illustration of a prototype astronaut suit, left, along with suit samples included aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. They are the first spacesuit materials ever sent to Mars.…
Boeing’s next Starliner launch for NASA could slip to early 2026 after fixes
Boeing’s Starliner capsule will remain ground-bound for a while longer yet. Last June, Starliner launched on its first-ever crewed flight, which sent NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to…
NEO surveyor instrument enclosure tested inside historic chamber for Apollo spacecraft testing
Credit: NASA The instrument enclosure of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson…
When’s the next ‘parade of planets’? The past, present and future of planetary alignments
The recent and much-ballyhooed “planetary parade” was an interesting celestial event that likely spurred even infrequent skywatchers to seek out the seven planets stretched out across the sky. Some of…
Webb telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early universe
JADES-GS-z13-1 in the GOODS-S field.Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, STScI, CSA, JADES Collaboration Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is…
The new moon of March 2025 creates a partial solar eclipse this weekend
This new moon of March 2025 will create a partial solar eclipse visible in the northeastern part of North America, much of Europe and Russia; one will even be able…
Protoplanetary disks are much smaller than previously thought, new study finds
Images of 73 protoplanetary discs in the Lupus star forming region (two of the images contain binary stars). Only a fraction of the discs extend beyond the orbit of Neptune,…
SpaceX rocket fuel makes stunning swirl in European sky
Credit: UK’s Met Office A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters and…
Dazzling photos of this month’s total lunar eclipse showcase a blood red moon near the Milky Way’s heart
Breathtaking photos of the total lunar eclipse from earlier this month capture a glowing, blood red moon and star-studded heart of the Milky Way in the night skies over Chile.…
