Items tagged with space
NASA is going all in with donning future astronauts in Italian high fashion, proving that even a 240,000-mile commute is no excuse to skimp on style. Through an ongoing partnership with aerospace firm Axiom Space, luxury fashion house...
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The half-century-long hunt for a missing piece of the Milky Way’s heart has finally ended with scientists finally discovering active wind caused by the black hole's jets.
According to theoretical physics, as a supermassive black hole...
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NASA has ended the MAVEN mission after losing contact with the $582 million Mars orbiter during a routine pass behind the planet. This concludes more than 11 years of groundbreaking atmospheric science and discoveries.
Trouble began on...
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A brilliant green meteor pierced the night sky over the Great Lakes region late Monday, generating hundreds of awe-struck (and likely some panicked) eyewitness accounts across nine U.S. states and Canada.
The celestial display began...
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A rare daytime fireball broke the quiet afternoon over New England when a 5-foot-wide meteor violently recently exploded in the sky. The high-altitude blast generated a powerful sonic boom that shook buildings across multiple states and...
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A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket suffered a catastrophic explosion during a routine ground test in Florida on Thursday night, delivering a blow (pun totally intended) to Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight ambitions. The cause of the failure is still...
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Astronomers, with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking discovery that could completely rewrite our understanding of cosmic history: a supermassive black hole that existed before the stars of its host...
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NASA has revealed its architectural layout for a sprawling lunar metropolis, proving that humanity is fully committed to moving out of Earth’s basement and onto the ultimate fixer-upper, the Moon’s south pole.
Fresh off the heels of the...
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Astronomers have discovered remnants of a galaxy that the Milky Way gobbled up roughly 10 billion years ago, consisting of "metal-poor" stars consistent with dwarf galaxies.
Space is mind-bogglingly vast. To understand its scale...
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Stargazers, mark your calendars. On Sunday, May 31, 2026, the night sky delivers a blue moon. However, before you picture something out of a fantasy novel, be prepared for a quite normal looking Moon. No blue tint and no cosmic paint job...
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully utilized Mars’ gravitational pull, gaining a vital speed boost for its journey to a metal-rich asteroid while transmitting stunning, high-resolution imagery of the Red Planet.
Swooping within a mere...
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A new study is drawing a sharper line between the booming satellite economy and the atmosphere above it: the same launch wave powering Starlink missions is also pumping soot, metal oxides, and ozone-depleting chemistry into the upper air...
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back another self-portrait from Mars (its sixth), captured at the farthest western point the mission has ever reached. The stunning composite image shows the rover perched on rugged terrain beyond Jezero...
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A newly discovered asteroid, 2026 JH2, will streak past Earth on May 18 at a distance far closer than the Moon but still safely outside harm’s path, offering a rare up‑close look at a small near‑Earth rock.
Discovered by the Mount...
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NASA and Microchip Technology Inc. are testing a palm-sized, radiation-resistant processor that could make mission systems 100x more powerful than current spaceflight computers, like the ageing RAD750 PowerPC-based single board...
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The Sun decided to throw another warning shot at Earth, this time with a powerful flare from sunspot region AR4436 triggering radio blackouts in certain regions, while sending coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth, raising the odds of...
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Messier 77 normally looks relatively serene in images, but who knew the supermassive black hole tugging at the galaxy's heartstrings could be so violent? New Webb images have captured the bright brilliant core 45 million light years away...
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Ingenuity's little-helicopter-that-could proved that flight on another planet isn't just a one trick pony, but something that can be expanded upon. Enter NASA's next-generation Mars helicopter blades that have passed Mach 1 in ground...
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Here's a small little reminder that space exploration is still full of messy, unexpected surprises. A sample rock nicknamed Atacama clung to the Curiosity rover’s drill for days before the Mars robot finally shook it free, giving its...
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Astronomers have released the biggest ever computer simulation of the universe that gives researchers a fresh way to test how the cosmos formed and evolved. The dataset, built by the FLAMINGO project, impressively contains more than 2.5...
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One of the "Big Five" general contracting and engineering firms in Japan has revived one of the most audacious energy ideas ever sketched: wrapping the Moon’s equator in a giant belt of solar panels and beaming the power back to Earth via...
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New analysis has turned NASA’s TESS mission from a targeted planet spotter into a broad census machine, with AI uncovering undiscovered worlds hiding in plain sight within the mission's data. For one, fresh tools like RAVEN have validated...
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