It’s been a long and winding road getting the James Webb Space Telescope from concept to reality. And finally, after decades of planning, work, delays, and cost overruns, the next generation of space telescopes is finally ready to launch. But even now, as the telescope might be secretly traveling by cargo ship to the European Space Agency (ESA) launch site in French Guiana, everyone involved with the JWST project knows a successful launch isn’t the final victory.
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New 'Star Trek: Prodigy' footage lands at NYCC with cast announcements
"Star Trek: Prodigy," Paramount+'s new animated Trek show, wowed the New York Comic Con crowed with its first full-length episode.
La Palma volcano: How satellites help us monitor eruptions
Since the Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting on 19 September 2021, lava has burned through homes, roads and farmlands causing mass destruction on the west part of the Canary Island of La Palma. Satellite imagery has helped authorities monitor and manage the ongoing crisis. From capturing images of the rivers of lava, to measuring gas emissions and assessing damage, the fleet of Copernicus Sentinel satellites have been providing crucial data for local teams.
Gravitational-Wave Observatories Should be Able to Detect Primordial Black Hole Mergers, if They’re out There
The tumultuous era of the big bang may have been chaotic enough to flood the universe with primordial black holes. Eventually some of those black holes will find each other and merge, sending out ripples of gravitational waves. A comprehensive search for those gravitational wave signatures hasn’t found anything, putting tight constraints on the abundance of these mysterious objects.
Spotlight on climate and the New Space economy
Kicking off with a bold flourish, Φ-week 2021 promises to bring space even closer to the forefront of addressing society’s biggest challenges, namely issues associated with the climate crisis, while boosting the economy through transformative New Space, artificial intelligence, and quantum and cognitive computing.
Remains of Nazi V2, the first supersonic rocket, unearthed in South East England
The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in the southeast of England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target.
Forecasting space weather is hard. A new Australian satellite may help make it easier
The new satellite is the first designed and built by the Australian Research Council Training Centre for Cubesats, UAVs, and their Applications (or CUAVA for short).
People have long claimed to hear the northern lights. Are the reports true?
People have long claimed they can hear the northern lights, saying the sounds include eerie whizzing, crackling and buzzing. Is it just an auditory illusion?
Best telescopes 2021: Top picks for viewing planets, stars, and more
Our selection of the best telescopes will suit all budgets and needs - whether you're watching planets, stars, the moon or anything else in the night sky
China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter changes orbit to begin planetary survey
Enter astrophotography competitions to get your work noticed by some of the world's most prestigious photographic institutions
Does space travel in the MCU make any sense?
Untangling all the different space travel methods to move across the Marvel universe.
Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities
The new heart of ESA’s Planetary Defence Office was inaugurated today, heralding a new chapter in the Agency’s work to protect Earth from dangerous near-Earth objects, aka asteroids.
Coolest spaceships in sci-fi
What are some of the coolest spaceships in sci-fi? We’ve picked some of pop culture’s best spaceships to ooo and ahh over.
Secondary payloads launched with Landsat begin commissioning
Students at Boston University work with CuPID spacecraft during pre-launch testing. Credit: NASA
Ground teams are stepping through testing of three small CubeSats launched with the Landsat 9 remote sensing satellite last month, preparing the small spacecraft for exoplanet observations and communications experiments. NASA says engineers have not established contact with another CubeSat designed for space weather research.
Wind Speeds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot are Picking up
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter – the largest storm in the solar system – has been raging for centuries. Over the past 100 years however, the cyclone has been dwindling, but recent observations with Hubble show that the wind speeds may be picking up again. Is this just temporary, or will the storm return to its former glory?
William Shatner's Blue Origin launch delayed to Wednesday due to weather
Blue Origin has pushed the next launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, which will carry Shatner and three other people, from Tuesday (Oct. 12) to Wednesday (Oct. 13) due to weather concerns.
NASA's asteroid spacecraft Lucy launches this week on ambitious 12-year mission
NASA's next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch.
Nobel Prize for physics winner shaped ground-breaking Earth-observing mission
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Klaus Hasselmann helped to shape a ground-breaking Earth-observation space mission that paved the way for the modern study of our planet's environment.
First close-up pictures of Mercury from BepiColombo hint at answers to the planet's secrets
The BepiColombo spacecraft – a joint project by the European and Japanese space agencies – swung by its destination planet Mercury in the early hours of Oct. 2.
Perseverance's first major successes on Mars — an update from mission scientists
In the short time since NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, it's already made history.
Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Detect the First Stars When They Exploded as Supernovae
The first stars to appear in the universe are no longer with us – they died long ago. But when they died they released torrents of gravitational waves, which might still be detectable as a faint hum in the background vibrations of the cosmos.
