SBUDNIC, a bread-loaf-sized cube satellite with a drag sail made from Kapton polyimide film, designed and built by students at Brown reentered Earth’s atmosphere five years ahead of schedule. Image…
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Long wait nearly over for Psyche asteroid probe’s Space Coast launch
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Just off a tree-covered side road past businesses selling boats and fishing gear sits a fenced-off building that’s home to a $700 million satellite nearly ready…
Mysterious Origin of Magnetars, Dead Stars
Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don’t know exactly how they…
India’s historic cut-price Moon mission set for touchdown
An Indian Space Research Organisation rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lifts off on July 14, 2023. India readied Wednesday to become the first nation to land a spacecraft on the…
Clearspace-1 space debris cleanup target struck by space debris
The target for a space debris cleanup mission is apparently in pieces. A leftover rocket adapter, expected to be removed from low Earth orbit in 2026, has new pieces of…
Chicago stargazers find more light pollution and wildfires are obscuring the skies
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some of Drew Carhart’s earliest memories remind him of his love of nature. Not just trees, flowers or birds—but the stars, planets and galaxies visible in…
Scientists introduce the design and application prospect of China’s Tiangong space station
Configuration diagram of Tiangong space station. Credit: Space: Science & Technology China’s manned space project was approved in 1992 with a three-step strategic plan, and building a space station is…
Hundred-Year Storms? That’s How Long They Last on Saturn
The largest storm in the solar system, a 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone called the Great Red Spot, has decorated Jupiter’s surface for hundreds of years. A huge storm dominates the rather featureless…
One giant step: Moon race heats up
Only Russia, the US and China have landed safely on the Moon’s surface. The crash landing on the Moon of Russia’s Luna-25 probe is the latest twist in an international…
Celestron EclipSmart 12x50mm porro solar binoculars review
With two solar eclipses coming up in North America everyone’s focusing on getting the best view, but do you need the kind of magnification offered by the Celestron EclipSmart 12x50mm…
