A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 49 Starlink satellites on Thursday (Feb. 3) from NASA’s historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A day later, a geomagnetic storm above Earth increased...
Category - Discovery
James Webb Telescope has been in the process of cooling down and aligning its mirror segments since February 2, after reaching its orbital point beyond the moon on January 24. The James Webb Telescope launched to space on...
The team behind NASA’s James Webb Telescope released some of the first images from the much-anticipated observatory on Friday (Feb. 11). The main photo, which doesn’t even hint at the power James Webb...
James webb telescope soared into space successfully on Dec. 25 and successfully completed its major deployments about two weeks later while speeding toward its ultimate destination: the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2)...
Near-Earth objects are Asteroid and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) of the Sun, which means they can circulate through the Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Most near-Earth...
On March 4, 2022, the spent upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the moon. The debris has been in space since February of 2015, when it launched the Deep Space Climate Observatory into space. The...
It makes sense to think that moons of planets are widespread throughout our galaxy and beyond. But these exomoon – moons beyond our solar system – are difficult to detect. They’re even harder than distant planets...
The undersea volcano had been burbling since late December 2021, shaking the seas near Tonga with a series of outbursts. Things kicked into higher gear this month, with powerful blasts on Jan. 13 and Jan. 14 and then an...
The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles (10 km). The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938...
Earth travels around the sun in an orbit that is slightly oval-shaped, known as an ellipse. Therefore, the planet’s distance from the sun changes throughout the year. The first person to find the...
Astronomers have previously seen giant black hole shred apart stars. However, researchers have also detected supermassive black hole generating powerful outflows that can feed the dense clouds from which stars are...
Two recent studies shed new light on the Moon’s origin story, suggesting that there’s more to the formation of Earth’s natural satellite. One study claims a messier origin to the Moon with multiple collisions that birthed...
China has fired up a machine designed to make unlimited energy fusion reactor known as the “artificial sun” – and wants to make it even hotter than the real sun. The Chinese experimental nuclear fusion reactor...
A spacecraft launched by NASA has done what was once thought impossible. On April 28, the Parker Solar Probe successfully entered the corona of the Sun — an extreme environment that’s roughly 2 million...
Chinese scientists have built an “artificial moon” research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism. Scientists plan to use the artificial moon facility to test...