Items tagged with space
Trick or treat! Combined observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled new imagery of the Cat's Head Nebula, exposing a vibrant stellar nursery hidden beneath the namesake's...
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Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that the scorching ultra-short-period (USP) exoplanet TOI-561 b unexpectedly features a highly reflective atmosphere complete with mineral-based clouds.
Located...
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Scientists have unveiled a supercomputer simulation named Lumina, which is the most detailed window yet into the first two billion years of our universe.
When trying to model the birth of the universe, computational cosmologists are...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is preparing to launch the first supercomputer to the surface of the Moon. Riding aboard Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform rover (a.k.a. FLIP, a smaller version of FLEX), the supercomputer will travel to...
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Elon Musk made a surprising announcement by declaring his intention to gift one SpaceX share (currently riding at around $150 each) to every child in the United States next year.
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid
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Astronomers using fresh data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have uncovered an asteroid that defies usual planetary physics, spinning at a speed so fast it should technically be tearing itself apart, but isn't.
Now, most large...
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Perseverance, NASA’s little rover that could (or can), has set an all-time off-world driving record, traveling farther on another planetary body than any vehicle in human history. Crossing the 28.10 mile (45.22 kilometer) mark across the unforgiving Mars terrain, the six-wheeled robotic...
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By adapting cosmic black hole physics, acoustic engineers have created a device that swallows sound inside pipes to eliminate unwanted acoustic energy such as echoes and vibrations.
When sound travels through enclosed ducts...
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (with initial data captured by South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope) have localized the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded: a signal that traveled across space for more than 10...
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Margaret Hamilton, the visionary computer scientist whose pioneering code guided NASA’s Apollo missions to the moon and established software engineering as a respected discipline, has passed at the age of 90.
Hamilton led the software...
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October offers a packed schedule of celestial treats for skywatchers, featuring two famous meteor showers, a rare planetary disappearance, and a bright full Moon.
Kicking off the mid-month stargazing lineup is the Draconid meteor...
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Observations from NASA's Webb telescope have revealed detailed chemical fingerprints from catastrophic, planet-shattering collisions in other solar systems, which in turn offer a peek into how worlds like Earth might have formed and...
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Power beaming in space is moving from sci-fi to reality as startup Star Catcher prepares to conduct a groundbreaking test that could lay the foundation for humanity’s first wireless power grid in space.
The fact is, current (and...
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Researchers have successfully simulated the birth of fundamental matter on three separate quantum computers, replicating subatomic phenomena observed only in particle colliders or in situ at the immediate aftermath of the Big...
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Scientists have detected direct, localized radio emissions from an exoplanet for the very first time. But don't call the Space Force and White House hotline just yet—these signals are not alien communications.
Centered on the young gas...
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Within the Virgo Cluster, lies NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy roughly 55 million light-years away whose inner workings defy the expected order of things. Newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a galaxy that is spinning in...
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Using NASA archives and ground-based observatories, astronomers have discovered Elias 2-24 b, a gas giant under one million years old that has just become the youngest exoplanet ever detected.
Located about 450 light-years from Earth...
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Astronomers have spotted a sizeable, freshly formed impact crater on the Moon, providing an unprecedented look at how violent cosmic collisions reshape lunar geology in real time.
Official deemed McGetchin, the new crater spans roughly...
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Up till now, American defense officials have carefully danced around the question of military hardware in orbit, framing military space activity in terms of passive reconnaissance, satellite protection, and defensive resilience. This week...
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IBM and NASA have teamed up to launch the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI built to analyze petabytes of observations collected over decades of moon missions. Hosted publicly on Hugging Face alongside its GitHub codebase...
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Astronomers studying the 3I/ATLAS comet have uncovered clues suggesting the interstellar visitor originated in a deep-freeze environment far older than our solar system.
When 3I/ATLAS zipped through the inner solar system, it became...
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The joint European and Japanese BepiColombo Mercury mission that left Earth some eight years ago has finally entered its arrival phase, shedding its propulsion module to begin a months-long orbital insertion of its two science...
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