This artist’s impression depicts the black hole at the heart of the enormous elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87). This black hole was chosen as the object of paradigm-shifting observations by the Event Horizon Telescope. The superheated material surrounding the black hole is shown, as is the relativistic jet launched by […]
Stratolaunch has a successful first flight on April 13, 2019. Credit: Stratolaunch An odd-looking, double-bodied airplane with a wingspan as long as a football field just took to the skies today (April 13) from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. This was the first flight for Stratolaunch, which […]
A satellite photo provided by the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geographic Information Network of Alaska shows clouds partially covering open water in the northern Bering Sea, the Bering Strait and the Chukchi Sea on Monday, March 4, 2019. St. Lawrence Island is in the foreground. Warm winds in mid-February melted […]
Artist’s illustration of Proxima b, the Earth-size world that orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Proxima b may have a neighbor: Astronomers have just detected a candidate planet in the same system (Image: © ESO/M. Kornmesser) BERKELEY, Calif. — The nearest exoplanet to Earth may have a neighbor. Astronomers have detected a […]
Artist’s impression of NASA’s DART spacecraft slamming into an asteroid. (Image: © ESA–Science Office) Yesterday (April 10) was a very good day for SpaceX. The company’s Falcon Heavy rocket aced its first-ever commercial mission, lofting the huge Arabsat-6A communications satellite and sticking three first-stage booster landings, one of them on a […]
Blizzard conditions cover the Central and Northern Plains on March 13, 2019. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory From 78 degrees on Tuesday to snow on Wednesday? Swings like this aren’t unusual in the central United States, where weather can quickly shift from one extreme to another. That’s especially true in the […]
US President Donald Trump has insisted that a separate branch of military is needed to focus on protecting satellites, tackling vulnerabilities in space, and asserting US dominance in orbit The Space Force that President Donald Trump wants to launch ran headlong on Thursday into skeptical lawmakers who questioned the need […]
People watch the live broadcast of the SpaceIL spacecraft as it lost contact with Earth in Netanya, Israel, Thursday, April 11, 2019. An Israeli spacecraft has failed in its attempt to make history as the first privately funded lunar mission.The SpaceIL spacecraft lost contact with Earth late Thursday, just moments […]
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying a communication satellite lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, April 11, 2019. (AP Photo/John Raoux) SpaceX launched its second supersized rocket and for the first time landed all three boosters Thursday, a year after sending […]
Scientists from the University of East Anglia have discovered a unique oil eating bacteria in the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans—the Mariana Trench. Research that reveals what lies at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean — the Mariana Trench.Until now, scientists knew more about Mars than […]