NASA’s venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as expected…
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Chinese space station crew returns after six months in orbit
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A three-person Chinese crew returned to Earth early Monday after more than six months aboard the Tiangong space station, state news agency Xinhua reported. Ye Guangfu,…
Explore a long-lost Starfleet ghost ship in new ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ comic (exclusive)
Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Lower Decks” has been an unmitigated success as a riotous take on the lives of the unsung junior members of the crew of the USS Cerritos, and…
Learning more about supernovae through stardust
Pair of presolar grains from the Murchison meteorite. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Energy Most of the diverse elements in the universe come from supernovae. We are, quite literally,…
Watch SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts move Crew Dragon spacecraft to new ISS parking spot on Nov. 3
Four astronauts will relocate a SpaceX spacecraft at the space station on Sunday (Nov. 3), and you can watch the event live. The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members…
Blue Origin hauls massive New Glenn 1st stage to launch site with hot fire up next
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Blue Origin hauled the immense first stage booster for its upcoming debut launch of its New Glenn rocket to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October…
Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and ‘birth atoms’
Astronomers have witnessed the titanic collision between two neutron stars that resulted in the birth of the smallest black hole ever seen and forged precious metals like gold, silver, and…
Earth sure looks spooky in these ‘hyperspectral’ images from Europe’s Hera asteroid probe
A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its…
Astronomers predict the orbits of potentially hazardous comets from meteor showers
Illustration of long-period comets and the Oort cloud. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it’s easy to understand why. They…
