Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The space shuttle Endeavour’s twin giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week and affixed into place atop the craft’s aft skirts in a first…
Category: Space
Black Holes Feed Faster Than Expected
A Northwestern University-led study supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation is changing the way astrophysicists understand the feeding habits of supermassive black holes. Black holes eat faster than previously expected New finding might…
Remains of Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth
In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery related to a hypothetical ancient planet: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one…
HAARP artificial airglow may be widely visible in Alaska
HAARP’s Ionospheric Research Instrument is a phased array of 180 high-frequency antennas spread across 33 acres. Credit: UAF/GI photo by JR Ancheta. Alaskans and visitors may be able to see…
Wearable devices may prevent astronauts getting ‘lost’ in space
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The sky is no longer the limit—but taking flight is dangerous. In leaving the Earth’s surface, we lose many of the cues we need to orient…
Giant Planets Cast a Deadly Pall
Giant gas planets can be agents of chaos, ensuring nothing lives on their Earth-like neighbors around other stars. New studies show, in some planetary systems, the giants tend to kick…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter
This image from a video animation provided by NASA depicts the Lucy spacecraft approaching an asteroid. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, Lucy encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its…
Astronomers now know how far the Earth is from 200 galaxies
CREDIT: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI On July 11, 2022, the very first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was released to the general public. It’s called Webb’s…
NASA C-130 makes first-ever flight to Antarctica for GUSTO balloon mission
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft delivered the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Oct. 28, 2023. The GUSTO mission will launch on…
Webb Sees Crab Nebula In New Light
Although the Crab Nebula is one of the best-studied supernova remnants, questions about its progenitor, the nature of the explosion, and the composition of its ejecta still remain unanswered. The…
