For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has captured a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly. In this stunning image of the Serpens…
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Detective work enables Perseverance Mars rover team to revive SHERLOC instrument
This image of NASA’s Perseverance rover gathering data on the “Walhalla Glades” abrasion was taken in the “Bright Angel” region of Jezero Crater by one of the rover’s front hazard…
A black hole of inexplicable mass
The black hole already weighed a billion solar masses when the universe was still in its infancy. The James Webb Space Telescope observed a galaxy in a young universe stage.…
US to launch satellite to better prepare for space weather
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is set to carry the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U into orbit from Florida. The United States is aiming Tuesday to launch a new satellite…
This impossibly massive black hole wasn’t very hungry during the dawn of time
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole at “cosmic dawn” that seems to be impossibly massive. The confusion comes from the fact that…
Revived technology used to count individual photons from distant galaxies
The SOAR Telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile. Credit: NOIRLab Using an instrument on the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope, researchers have obtained the first astronomical spectrum using skipper charge-coupled…
Will Boeing Starliner issues delay its 1st long-duration astronaut flight?
While NASA and Boeing are focused on finishing the first astronaut mission aboard the Starliner spacecraft early next month, what happens next is already on everyone’s mind. Boeing’s Starliner capsule…
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
Deep in the outer reaches of the solar system — so far away from the known planets that the sun would barely be distinguishable from a nearby star — a…
New ‘Star Wars Outlaws’ gameplay trailer dives into the galactic underworld (video)
Last year’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was easily one of the best Star Wars games of all time, and yet, fans have been itching for a full-blown open-world game set…
‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ zooms into Season 2 with new ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ warps into Season 2 with new Netflix trailer (video) trailer and bold key art
Resurrected by Netflix and zooming onto their streaming platform starting on July 1, 2024, the award-winning animated children’s series, “Star Trek: Prodigy,” is cleared for launch and CBS Studios has…
