NASA's tiny CAPSTONE moon probe is back in touch with its handlers, ending a short but spooky silent period.
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A bus-sized asteroid is passing safely by Earth today and you can watch for free
A space rock at least the size of a bus will safely whiz by our planet today, and you can watch the event on a free livestream.
Mars sailplane prototype soars during early-stage tethered flight test in Arizona
An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight.
Asteroid Bennu sports landslide and massive crater from tiny space rock
When a tiny space rock hit the asteroid Bennu, it caused a landslide across the space rock and a massive crater.
Titan Occults a Bright Star, Mira Awakens, and Comet PanSTARRS Shines
Pick one or see them all. July offers a potpourri of celestial events for both naked-eye observers and telescope users that include a rare occultation by Saturn's moon Titan, a bright comet, and Mira at maximum.
Earth's magnetic field: Explained
Earth's magnetic field originates in the outer core and extends out into the magnetosphere — a region of space that helps protect Earth from space weather.
NASA's tiny CAPSTONE mission continuing to moon as team works communications glitch
Operators lost contact with the moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite yesterday (July 5) after initially completing a set of tasks following its separation from the rocket upper stage.
Celestron StarSense Explorer 8-inch Dobsonian telescope review
This impressive 'push to' light bucket with smartphone app alignment is an easy way to explore both deep-sky and solar system targets.
Autel EVO Nano+ review
The palm-sized Autel EVO Nano+ offers advanced features while keeping its weight below 250g.
City heat extremes
With air temperatures in excess of 10°C above the average for the time of year in parts of Europe, the United States and Asia, June 2022 has gone down as a record breaker. The fear is that these extreme early-season heatwaves are a taste of what could soon be the norm as climate change continues to take hold. For those in cities, the heat dissipates slower creating ‘urban heat islands’, which make everyday life even more of a struggle.
How NASA will launch Mars samples off the Red Planet
The 10-foot-tall (3 meters) Mars Ascent Vehicle will blast rock, sediment and atmospheric samples off Mars in the early 2030s, in the first-ever rocket launch from the surface of another planet.
Large Hadron Collider scientists hail most powerful collisions ever as detector gets back to work
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back with more powerful collisions than ever before and scientists are thrilled to see what they can learn.
Russian cosmonauts spread anti-Ukraine propaganda from space station
Russia's federal space agency recently shared images of its cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station brandishing the flags of two Russian-backed separatist territories in eastern Ukraine.
James Webb Space Telescope will watch smashing worlds in high definition
The messy system of Beta Pictoris will come under scrutiny to learn how similar it is to our solar system.
Rover plus astronaut complete Mount Etna challenge
In a complex role-played version of a mission to the Moon, controllers at ESOC combined with a team of geological scientists and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter to oversee a rover’s collection of rock samples. Acting as if he were in lunar orbit, the astronaut was in fact based in a hotel room in Catania, Sicily, with the rover 23 km away and 2 600 m uphill on the volcanic flanks of Mount Etna. As Thomas commanded the rover to pick up rocks his hand experienced just what the robot’s gripper felt – an added dimension in remote control.
Monstrous Black Holes Spin More Slowly — But Why?
X-ray observations add to growing evidence that the most massive black holes have a different past than their lightweight peers.
Mars Rovers Will Need to Dig Deeper If They Want to Find Evidence of Life
The search for life—even ancient life—on Mars is trickier than we thought. In a recent study published in the journal Astrobiology, researchers have determined that NASA’s Mars Perseverance (Percy) Rover will have to dig two meters (6.6 feet) beneath the Martian surface in order to find traces of ancient life. This is because the surface of Mars is constantly bombarded with extreme levels of solar radiation that scientists hypothesize would quickly degrade small molecules such as amino acids. The reason for this extreme level of radiation is due to the absence of a magnetic field, which scientists believe was stripped away billions of years ago when the planet’s liquid outer core ceased to produce the dynamo that created the field.
LHC Scientists Find Three Exotic Particles — and Start Hunting for More
Physicists say they’ve found evidence in data from Europe’s Large Hadron Collider for three never-before-seen combinations of quarks, just as the world’s largest particle-smasher is beginning a new round of high-energy experiments.
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 9 concludes the first chapter of Uhura's journey
It's gripping, it's gritty and this episode pulls no punches in the show's most daring installment yet.
NASA's 1st Mars rover touched down on the Red Planet 25 years ago
It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags.
We've Seen a Helicopter on Mars. Next, Sailplanes?
The success of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter has encouraged engineers to consider and reconsider all options for remote aerial observations of the Red Planet. Additional methods for birds-eye views of Mars would not only provide higher resolution data on the landscapes where rovers can’t go — such as canyons and volcanoes — but also could include studying atmospheric and climate processes that current orbiters and rovers aren’t outfitted to observe.
