Heads up aurora chasers! We could be in for a treat tonight. A coronal mass ejection (CME) from a powerful solar blast on March 1 is racing toward Earth, with…
Category: Space
‘America First’ on the moon? US must ‘dominate’ in space, acting NASA chief says during lunar landing
As a private lunar lander closed in on the moon early Sunday morning (March 2), poised to make history with the first fully successful landing, NASA’s acting chief Janet Petro…
Two lunar landings in a week for NASA’s private moon fleet
Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States’ return to the lunar surface, when the first-ever private lander touched down…
‘We’re on the moon!’ Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander just etched its name into the history books. Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private…
A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It’s a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 times closer than the Earth…
What time will the private Blue Ghost probe land on the moon Sunday? How to watch live.
The private spaceflight company Firefly Aerospace will attempt its first-ever moon landing in the wee hours of Sunday (March 2) and you’ll be able to see it live, but you…
Researchers create virtual model to decode red planet’s climate evolution
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers are creating advanced simulations that will provide a deeper understanding of Mars’s climatic history and help to determine whether it was once able to sustain…
Why the northern lights seem more frequent than ever — from solar science to smartphone snapshots
Why did the world suddenly become obsessed with the northern lights? It seems like not a week goes by without news of solar flares and, very often, a forecast for…
Designing a satellite to hunt small space debris
This image, with Earth’s north polar region at center, shows satellites (orange dots) and space debris (pink dots) in orbit through the ionosphere on July 22, 2024. Ionosphere model data…
