Space News

on 2022-01-21

Our sun just had a medium-sized energy burp.

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Earth’s star is the largest and the most massive object in the solar system. More than one million Earths could fit inside the sun.

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UAP will get more attention from both the scientific community and the federal government in 2022, experts told Space.com.

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Scientists have for the first time confirmed the merger of two highly eccentric black holes.

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Earth’s distance from the sun does not stay the same throughout the year.

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The speed of light puts a speed limit on matter, lets us peer back into the history of our universe, and has deep implications for physics and space travel.

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The sun’s temperature varies from around 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius) in the core to about 10,000 degrees F (5,500 degrees C) at the surface.

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On Jan. 21, 1960, a monkey named Miss Sam launched on a Little Joe rocket. See how it happened in our On This Day In Space video series.

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An Atlas V rocket topped with two “neighborhood watch” satellites is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT).

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The tally is something like 61 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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Does the simulation hypothesis offer a compelling argument, or is it just interesting food for thought? Let’s find out.

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Watch the sun set from a particularly dark patch of Earth and you may spot a triangle of what scientists call zodiacal light extending from where our star passed below the horizon.

on 2022-01-20

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has temporarily stopped its science observations while the mission team investigates an issue.

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Get to know our nearest stars, their distances in light-years, spectral types and their known planets.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is on its way to L2 to study the universe.

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A SpaceX resupply ship will have to wait at least one more day before returning to Earth.

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Stunning views of the aftermath of the Tonga volcano eruption have been snapped by astronauts at the International Space Station.

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has notched yet another milestone — the first weather-related flight delay on another planet.

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Spacecraft prep and orbital traffic pushed the first all-private space station mission one month later.

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Neil Armstrong was a NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the moon, on July 20, 1969.

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For 60 years, the Cosmosphere has been a leader in the preservation of space history. The Kansas institution has everything you would want from a world-class museum. Everything, except its own beer.

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The Marsquake-hunting mission will pause science for the time being.

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Washington-based Radian Aerospace announced today (Jan. 19) that it has raised $27.5 million to aid the development of Radian One, its crew-carrying single-stage-to-orbit space plane.

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String theory might be the theory of everything… or a flawed framework for theoretical physics.

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This list of famous astronomers includes great scientists in history who mastered many fields and modern astronomers who helped popularize astronomy.

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We have a look at the upcoming sci-fi movies for 2022 to see what we’ve got to look forward to.

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Our Nerf gun deals is constantly being reloaded with new offers on Nerf guns including Star Wars, Halo and Fortnite blasters.

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NASA’s International Space Station team is eager to stick with the orbiting laboratory until 2030.

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Being in space causes the human body to destroy about 50% more red blood cells, leading to a potentially dangerous condition known as anemia.

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A unique archaeological study of crew culture within the International Space Station will focus on the orbiting habitat as a “microsociety in a miniworld.”