Massive red supergiant star Betelgeuse is at the end of its life span, at least on cosmic timescales, but the gargantuan fireball is going out kicking and screaming.Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories to determine …
A $25 hacking tool that can seemingly breach Starlink’s internet terminals has been revealed by a security researcher.
As reported by Wired and Gizmodo, Lennert Wouters, who works at Belgian university KU Leuven, showcased how to infiltrate the satelli…
Astronomers said Tuesday that the world’s largest radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, might’ve picked up a signal from the youngest exoplanet discovered to date.It’s a nascent world thought to have a Jupiter-l…
NASA hopes to launch the most powerful rocket ever created before the end of August. Let’s take a look at the Space Launch System (SLS), what goes into setting the all important launch dates, and how you can watch the scientific uber missile lift off l…
Enlarge / The dust in this galaxy, shaded red, required the MIRI instrument to resolve.
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There is more than one reason why the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is considered to be p…
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX pioneered autonomous landing of orbital rockets, using droneships and even plans to catch its Super Heavy boosters using giant automated arms attached to its launch tower. But when it came time to negotiate getting …
Enlarge / A Long March 2F carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 5, 2022.
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Last week one of China’s most reliable rockets, the Long March 2F vehicle, t…
On May 14, 2018, a tempest straight from The Twilight Zone rained over Oklahoma. Rather than scatter the Earth with jagged lightning bolts, the shrouds of dense clouds powering this storm spit one 50 miles upward, far enough to graze the ionosp…
Enlarge / An Electron rocket launches a mission for the US National Reconnaissance Office on August 4, 2022.
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For a rocket named after a negatively charged particle, the Electron launch vehicle has generated a lot of positive news lately…
A sky full of stars is on glorious display in this week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows a structure called a globular cluster, which is an enormous collection of tens of thousands or even millions of stars, tightly bound by gra…