This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication proofread OK! A black hole that pulls material from a companion star to itself, forming a disk that orbits the black hole before falling into it. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss. × close to A black hole that pulls material from a companion star to itself, … Read more
American news By means of Richard Pollina Published May 25, 2024, 5:48 am ET A glamping groundskeeper came across a bizarre space object along a remote trail in the mountains of North Carolina. Justin Clontz and a colleague were doing maintenance around the Glamping Collective, a luxury campground in Haywood County, when he was “shocked” … Read more
Astronomers use the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered what they believe to be three of the earliest galaxies in our universe, actively forming when the cosmos was only 400 million to 600 million years old. In the JWST images, this galactic trio appears as faint red blobs feeding on nearby helium and hydrogen. For … Read more
ESA’s fireball camera in Cáceres, Spain, captured this stunning meteor on Saturday evening, May 18, 2024. Credit: ESA/PDO/AMS82 – AllSky7 Fireball Network A meteor lighting up the skies over Spain and Portugal was captured by the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite and a ground-based camera in Spain. This event showcased the capabilities of the new … Read more
More than 50 startups have registered for the EXPAND program – an accelerator led by Israeli company Creation-Space and the Tech7 innovation community, along with additional partners, supported by the Israeli Space Agency. From these applicants, five companies will be chosen to receive comprehensive business and professional guidance tailored to the space sector, with an … Read more
A US Senate committee heard from the head of NASA what the nature of a development mission means: sometimes you have to wait. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, while aware of what he calls a “space race” with China to establish a sustainable presence on the moon, said Thursday (May 23) that he will only commit … Read more
May 24, 2024 Hello! Welcome back to our regular article where we write about some of the games we’ve played over the last few days. This week we lean on sailors’ superstitions to scare a boat full of pirates, travel through space in vast Gothic monasteries, and learn a hard lesson about communication in an … Read more
A surprisingly low methane reservoir could explain how a planet around a nearby star became strangely puffy, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The finding shows that planetary atmospheres can inflate to remarkable amounts without resorting to esoteric theories of planet formation, astronomers say. “The Webb data tells us that … Read more
Six years ago, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Tesla into space, in a stunt that even the most hardened Musk haters would grudgingly admit was pretty cool. The Roadster has had an amazing journey since then, currently moving away from Earth at an impressive speed of 25,290 kilometers per hour (15,715 miles per hour), with … Read more
NASA’s mission to the metal kingdoms asteroid 16 Psyche has started its ion engines and is now sailing over the solar system under the power of solar-electric propulsion. The launch of the spacecraft, which is also called Psycheon October 13, 2023, it provided enough initial momentum to carry it through more than 300 million kilometers … Read more