[ad_1] On Tuesday 25 July, the four crew members of Crew-7, Jasmin Moghbeli (NASA), Andreas Mogensen (ESA), Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA) and Konstantin Borisov (Roscosmos) hosted a news conference where they talk about their upcoming mission to the International Space...

[ad_1] In space no one can hear you … sing?Well, that might be technically true for warbling in the cold vacuum of outer space but inside the comfortable confines of a Constitution Class Federation starship like the U.S.S. Enterprise, the acoustics might be akin to...

[ad_1] Back to Article List The comet will appear during totality in April 2024. But first, it's got a few surprises in store, recently brightening several magnitudes. Comet Pons-Brooks is visible in the evenings near the head of Draco the Dragon. Credit: Alison...

[ad_1] Twinkle, twinkle little star, I wonder just how old you are. It isn’t an easy question to answer. Stars are notoriously difficult to age. We know the age of the Sun because we happen to live on one of its orbiting rocks, and we know very well how old the rock...

[ad_1] Enabling & Support 25/07/2023 508 views 32 likes Astronaut Frank Rubio aboard the International Space Station collaborated with a small team of robots on Earth to accomplish a complex task – a first test of a new approach to combine human and robotic...

[ad_1] The relentless wildfires in Greece can be seen from space as the blazes rage across the islands of Rhodes, Corfu and Evia. The wildfires started last week on July 17. Authorities suspect arson may have caused the initial blaze, which has since been fueled by...

[ad_1] Back to Article List Credit: Gianni Tumino Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the best in astronomy from Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher, brought to you by Celestron. Dave’s weekly video series will cover all the latest sky events, scientific results,...

[ad_1] A pair of new studies set to be published in The Astronomical Journal examine new discoveries in the field of rogue planets, which are free-floating exoplanets that drift through space unbound by the gravitational tug of a star. They can form within their own...

[ad_1] Science & Exploration 24/07/2023 1957 views 59 likes New measurements by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) has detected water vapour in the inner disc of the system PDS 70, located 370 light-years away. This is the...

[ad_1] This week will see a first-of-its-kind operation to guide a dead and disused satellite back to Earth safely. The mission will pave the way for the safe return of other space-based equipment in the future. The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to help its Aeolus...