Space James Webb's New Image Shows the Early Days of Star Formation The protostar is now hidden in an hourglass-shaped cloud of dust and gas, and it has yet to develop the ability to generate its own energy through nuclear fusion, like the Sun and other stars.
Space A Well-Known Ground Detector Can Detect Alien Spaceships A team of American scientists has published a new study, which has not yet passed scientific peer review, in which they propose to use the world's largest detector for detecting gravitational waves LIGO to find alien spaceships.
Space The Automated Martian Station InSight Stopped Communicating The InSight space science station, which arrived at Mars in 2018, has stopped communicating. As NASA noted, the last time the spacecraft could be contacted was December 15.
Space Astronomers Predicted the Death of an Exoplanet Kepler-1658b is a typical hot Jupiter. It orbits a pro-evolved star of spectral class F, located 2,600 light-years from Earth. The exoplanet has six times the mass of Jupiter, and its orbit is only 0.05 AU (7 million km) from its parent luminary.
Space Astronomers Discover a Huge Planet Killer Asteroid Over time, the movement of this asteroid will sync with that of the Earth, and it will cross much closer by, but it will happen centuries into the future. Any asteroid over 1km in size is considered a planet killer and enough to trigger a mass extinction event on Earth.
Space Astronomers Created a New Interactive Map of the Universe The full map of the observable universe is actually a slice of cosmos with a thickness of about 10 degrees. However, it still gives an idea of the scale of our universe as well as its stars and galaxies up to 13.7 billion light-years away.
Space James Webb Telescope Spotted Two Unusually Bright Galaxies from the Early Universe The galaxies are extremely bright, and one of the reasons for this may be that they could have been very massive, with lots of low-mass stars. Or they could be much less massive, consisting of a smaller number of extremely bright Population III stars.
Space NASA Has Finally Launched Its Artemis 1 Moon Mission on Its Most Powerful Rocket The Artemis 1 test mission successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral on the morning of November 16. The SLS rocket successfully launched the Orion spacecraft and an additional payload into space.
Space Astronomers Discover Traces of an Ancient Ocean on Mars Scientists from Pennsylvania State University have found evidence that about 3.5 billion years ago, Mars had a vast ocean, which covered hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the planet. Its existence was indicated by the topography of the shoreline.
Space SpaceX Launched Its Falcon Heavy Rocket for the First Time in Three Years The world's largest operational space launch vehicle lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 1. It delivered into orbit several secret cargoes for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the USSF-44 mission.
Space Astronomers Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth A team of astronomers has discovered the closest known black hole to Earth using data from the Gaia spacecraft. They did it by observing the Sun-like star moving in unexpected ways caused by the gravity of an unseen massive object.
Space Starlink to Introduce Daytime Data Caps Starting in December Elon Musk's SpaceX will limit Starlink's Internet speeds during peak hours for those users who consume more than 1 TB of traffic per month. The changes will take effect next month.
Space Astronomers Found a Way to Predict When a Supernova Will Occur Type II-P supernovae abruptly dump the matter surrounding them, which becomes a cloud. It gets very hot during the explosion and then gradually cools down, thus creating the effect of a slow-fading star.
Space NASA Captured an Image of the Sun Smiling Despite the cheerful appearance of our star, what caused its smile might be rather unpleasant for the inhabitants of Earth and has a scientific explanation.
Space Mumm Designed a Champagne Bottle Designed for Space Travel If you squeeze a finger-controlled valve, a globule of champagne will be released in the form of foam. Drinkers can scoop the wine out of the air using a tiny glass with a long stem that resembles an egg cup.
Space NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Changed the Orbit of an Asteroid The goal of DART was to change the orbit of Dimorphos around the larger asteroid by at least 73 seconds, although scientists had hoped the effect would be more like 10 minutes. This minimum benchmark has been exceeded by more than 25 times.
Space A New Simulation Shows That Our Moon Could Have Formed Within Hours According to a popular theory, the Moon was formed after Earth's collision with the larger celestial body – planet Theia. That collision resulted in a giant cloud of space material that later formed the satellite of our planet.
Space Mars Is Littered with More than 15 Thousand Pounds of Human Trash West Virginia University postdoc Cagri Kilic has calculated how much debris humans have left on Mars over 50 years of exploring the surface of the Red Planet. There are now three main sources of debris: discarded hardware, inactive spacecraft, crashed spacecraft.
Space Astronauts Could Use Martian Soil for 3D-Printing In most of their experiments, the researchers mixed different amounts of simulated Martian regolith with a titanium alloy. They also tried to make a 3D-printing material from pure simulated regolith.
Space Astronomers May Have Discovered Remnants of the Universe's Earliest Stars At the end of their life cycle, first-generation stars would explode as exceptionally bright pair-instability supernovae, filling interstellar space with a characteristic mixture of heavy chemical elements.
Space The Webb Telescope Captures Mysterious Rings Around a Distant Star Astronomer at NOIRLab and principal investigator of the project Ryan Lau confirmed that these rings are real, not an optical illusion. He promised that scientists would soon publish a full research paper explaining this phenomenon.
Space NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Crashed Into an Asteroid in a Planetary Defense Test As part of the mission, NASA was investigating whether it was possible to alter the trajectory of a celestial body by hitting it with a space probe. This was humanity's first attempt to change the celestial body's trajectory.
Space The Inouye Telescope Reveals New Images of the Sun's Chromosphere The Daniel Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii has taken new images of the Sun in great detail. The new images cover a chromospheric region 82,500 km wide and are just a small fraction of the Sun's total size.
Space NASA Reveals New Stunning Images of Jupiter Taken by the Webb Telescope The images that show the planet's features in detail were taken by the Webb telescope's near-infrared camera (NIRCam). It can observe celestial bodies such as stars, nebulae, and planets that are too cold or too faint to be seen in visible light.
Space You Can Now Explore Mars Using an Interactive Map The map was unveiled at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 in Granada, Spain. It was created using orbital images as well as three-dimensional panoramic views of the Jezero crater.
