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Astronomers Captured A Supposedly Dead Star Feasting On Its Cosmic Neighbor

When a star goes supernova, things can get messy. As the celestial object reaches the end of its life, the explosion, a supernova, spews light and energy across the universe and disrupts the gentle balance that once existed in the star system. The end result is either a neutron star or a black hole: two […]

NASA Is Delaying Artemis Moon Missions By A Year — Here’s The Main Safety Reason

— Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service/Getty Images NASA has delayed humanity’s highly-anticipated return to the Moon, its Artemis II mission, to September 2025 from an original target launch of November 2024, citing the need for extra time to analyze why the space capsule’s heat shield created hazardous, burning debris upon re-entry to Earth during the Artemis […]

SpaceX Competitor, ULA, Will Launch Monday Carrying First U.S. Moon Lander Since Apollo

— CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images In the predawn hours of Monday, January 8, two new projects aim to take flight. Private space company United Launch Alliance will see the inaguaral flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket. Onboard the Vulcan Centaur is Astrobotic’s Peregrine I lander, which will attempt to land on the Moon and, among other […]

A Planetary Scientist Reveals the 6 Biggest Space Missions in 2024

— NASA The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission by Ali M. Bramson at Purdue University. Read the original article here.

The 8 Most Epic Space Fails of 2023

— Inverse; Getty Images Space travel is hard. From building the rockets to braving the vacuum, surviving the radiation, and safely returning to terra firma, there are few things about it that don’t have a high potential to fail spectacularly. And yet when everything goes as planned — like when Curiosity touches down on Mars, […]

Watch This Nebula 2,500 Light Years Away Light Up Like a Christmas Tree

The Milky Way is delivering some holiday cheer in a new image and video NASA published Tuesday. Young stars clustered together some 2,500 light years from Earth are creating a Christmas tree in space. With a little help from telescopes of different specialties that show phenomena beyond what we could normally see with our eyes, […]

These Breath-Taking Cloud Formations Could Revolutionize Weather Tracking, New Research Uncovers

— golfer2015/E+/Getty Images Our planet has warmed by about 1.2°C since 1850. Climate models simulate this effect, but when tested against the past 40 years of warming, these models fall short. The situation is even worse when it comes to modeling past climates with very high levels of greenhouse gases. This is a problem because […]

The Moon’s Craters May Help Humans Predict Our Chances Of Extinction

— Marc Ward/Stocktrek Images/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at one in six. It’s quite a specific number and an alarming one. The claim drew headlines […]

2023’s Most Ambitious TV Epic Reinvents 21st Century Sci-Fi

Since 2019, one bold science-fiction series has stood apart. For All Mankind isn’t just one of the most intricate and measured sci-fi concepts ever created — it’s also a story that continues to defy expectations. In Season 1, the show asked the simple question: What if Russia had landed on the Moon before the United […]

New Webb Telescope Image Captures Newborn Stars in a Stellar Nursery

Delivering another stellar masterpiece, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just captured a familiar nearby galaxy in a whole new light — with streamers of glowing gas and dust lit by the fires of newborn stars. This region of dense gas and dust, called NGC 346, is the churning engine behind the bright new stars […]