The year 2024 has been another challenging one for Earth’s climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming.…
Category: Space
2025 preview: The sci-fi movies and TV shows
Okay, every year is a big year for sci-fi these days, but 2025 is looking particularly exciting. Outer space is set to be a major theme in Hollywood this year,…
India rocket launches space docking mission
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain India launched a rocket Monday carrying two small spacecraft to test docking in space, a critical step for the country’s dreams of a space station and…
‘Dune: Prophecy’s’ Faoileann Cunningham on Sister Jen’s harrowing series journey (exclusive)
Amid the sacred stone walls of the Sisterhood’s fortress-like headquarters on the planet Wallach IX, the acolytes of Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) and Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen (Olivia…
Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?
Dec. 28: SpaceX launching 2 rockets today SpaceX is planning two rocket launches in the next 12 hours, one from California and the other from Florida. The first launch is…
From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb Telescope has found in just 3 years
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space.…
Astronomers discover an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy
The morphology and photometric redshift of Zhúlóng. Credit: Xiao et al., 2024. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sets new record for sun proximity
An artist’s concept showing Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/APL Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec.…
The rare ‘black moon’ of December 30 rises next week
December 2024 will see a rare “black moon,” a term for the second new moon in a calendar month. The second new moon of December will occur at 5:27 p.m.…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface
This image made available by NASA shows an artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It’s designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its…
