If you’ve ever gazed up at the full moon, you might notice a face looking back at you: the so-called man in the moon. But why does our natural satellite seem to sport a face? Over billions of years, asteroid impact craters and the aftermath of lunar volcanic eruptions gaveContinue Reading
The Navy admitted it has a lot more footage of UFOs — but won’t share them anytime soon. The U.S. Navy holds unseen videos of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), as the Department of Defense (DOD) prefers to call them — but will not releaseContinue Reading
The moon’s mountains were ‘backlit by solar fire’ at the peak. A sungazing spacecraft captured the moon passing in front of the face of the sun Wednesday (June 29). NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory(opens in new tab) caught the solar eclipse(opens in new tab) in action from its unique vantage pointContinue Reading
Space agency officials promise to deliver geology results from worlds dozens of light-years away The James Webb Space Telescope plans to explore strange, new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail. The telescope’s scientific consortium has an ambitious agenda to study geology on these small planets from “50 light-years away”, they saidContinue Reading
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union came up with a new way to classify planets that famously saw Pluto downgraded. Now a new row has started as astronomers try to define exoplanets What is a planet? Despite decades of trying, astronomers still haven’t found a definition that everyone can agreeContinue Reading
With its mirrors now focused, the observatory’s science instruments are now being readied for work After James Webb Space Telescope officials released a stunning image of a single star, the team is ready to get other telescope parts in line with the observatory’s mirrors. The $10 billion telescope successfully alignedContinue Reading
It was the record-tying 11th flight for this Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage. SpaceX launched nearly four dozen satellites and landed the returning rocket Monday (Feb. 21) on a mission that tied the company’s booster-reuse record. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 46 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband spacecraft liftedContinue Reading
The Sicilian volcano is ‘smoking’ and ‘spitting lava,’ one astronaut reports. The majestic Mount Etna is erupting so strongly in the Mediterranean that it’s catching the attention of the International Space Station crew. Members of Expedition 66 currently in orbit shared some views of space of the highly active volcano,Continue Reading
Venus’ perpetually cloud-shrouded surface remains penetrable only by radio waves. A planetary radar group now reports results of an extended series of radar measurements of the topography of Venus that for the first time provides a view of surface height variations around the entire circumference of the planet. Those observationsContinue Reading
The satellites are expected to completely burn up upon reentry. A powerful geomagnetic storm has doomed 40 Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX last week, the company has announced. Elon Musk’s company launched a Falcon 9 rocket bearing the 49 satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday (Feb. 3),Continue Reading