Space and astronomy news
JUICE is having problems extending its radar antenna. Astronomers watch a star eat its planet. A design for a space station with artificial gravity.
Continue reading “JUICE in Trouble, Sun-Like Star Devours a Planet, Space Station with Artificial Gravity”
JUICE launches to Jupiter and its moons. A new JWST image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Machine learning cleans up the Universe, and improves images of a black hole’s event horizon. Terran 1 is dead, long live Terran R.
Continue reading “JUICE Launched to Jupiter, AI Helping Astronomy, Terran-1 Is No More”
We finally got JWST data about TRAPPIST-1. An Earth-sized rogue planet was found. More information about China’s plans for the Moon.
Continue reading “JWST Reveals Trappist-1 Data, Earth-Sized Rogue Planet, Vulcan Delay”
Venus has active volcanoes, we get a glimpse of NASA’s new lunar exploration suits, and scientists build a completely flat telescope lens.
Continue reading “Venus Breakthrough, $1B to Deorbit The ISS, Moon Spacesuits”
The official verdict on Artemis 1. Canadian kids discovered something NASA didn’t know. Was there a Dark Big Bang? The next bright comet for 2024.
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Perseverance has been on Mars for two years. Are black holes the source of dark energy? Universe-breaking galaxies found. And an early warning system for asteroids.
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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”