Space and astronomy news
DART’s results are in and they exceed all expectations. The Moon might just be a big chunk of the Earth that formed in just hours. Webb sees bizarre rings around a star, and SLS gets a new launch date… at night.
Continue reading “Huge DART Success, JWST Sees Weird Rings, Moon’s True Origin”
Humanity moved an asteroid on purpose for the first time in history. Juno flies past Jupiter’s moon Europa. A possible mission to boost Hubble, and a mysterious blob is orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
Continue reading “SpaceX To Fix Hubble, DART Success, Exciting Enceladus Discoveries”
James Webb is currently experiencing problems with its MIRI instrument. The problem is due to increased friction in one of MIRI’s mechanisms in the Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy (MRS) mode. The observatory is otherwise healthy, but the team decided to stop observations using MRS mode until they find a solution.
Continue reading “JWST’s MIRI Issues, Newborn Quasar, Detecting Exoplanets with Lagrange Points”
Uh oh, NASA’s CAPSTONE mission is having problems, A New Shepard Flight fails, Betelgeuse was recently yellow, and of course, another amazing new image from Webb.
Continue reading “Blue Origin Explosion, CAPSTONE Problems, Space Diamonds”
How iPhone 14 will connect to satellites. Why SLS didn’t launch and when it might. Growing rice in space. And a new incredible image from James Webb. All this and more space news in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
Continue reading “AMAZING JWST Image, iPhone 14 and Satellites, Green Sand on Mars”
Artemis 1 delayed yet again, a direct image of an exoplanet from Webb, how Starlink will connect directly to phones, Voyager 1 is fixed, and the Crisis in Cosmology continues.
Continue reading “JWST Sees An Exoplanet, SLS Delay, Cosmology Crisis Continues”
No, James Webb didn’t disprove the Big Bang. Carbon dioxide found in an exoplanet atmosphere. An amazing picture of Jupiter from Webb, pieces of other stars found in asteroid Ryugu, weak astronauts arriving on Mars, and a new way to measure distances in the Universe.
Continue reading “‘Panic!’ Around JWST, Exoplanet With CO2, Weak Mars Astronauts”
Rocket Lab is launching the first-ever private mission to Venus. Europe is considering space-based solar power. A new method to detect exoplanets. More evidence about the Moon’s origins. Webb’s largest every image. All that and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
Continue reading “Largest JWST Image, First Private Interplanetary Mission, Space Bubbles VS Climate Change”
James Webb delivers scientific results, SLS and Starship go closer to their maiden flights, remote surgery robot is going to the ISS, Perseverance continues to find weird stuff on Mars, and Hubble is still going strong. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
Continue reading “JWST’s Science, Surgeon Robot for ISS, Booster 7 Test Fire”
An interstellar meteorite could be hiding in the ocean. Why doesn’t Jupiter have rings like Saturn. The time when Earth’s magnetic field almost collapsed. The shortest day on Earth, and Planet 9 is running out of places to hide. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
Continue reading “Interstellar Meteorite, Shortest Day Ever, Magnetosphere Collapse”