How can sunlight reflecting off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites interfere with ground-based operations? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a pair of researchers investigate how Starlink satellites appear brighter—which the researchers also...

Applications 24/05/2024 4169 views 16 likes ESA’s Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is getting ready for lift-off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, California, with a target launch date of no earlier than 28 May 2024. Save the...

Adding more combustible material to the inferno of AI unease sweeping the globe, director Brad Peyton "(Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," "San Andreas," "Rampage") is experiencing a healthy surge of adrenalin to his Hollywood filmmaking career that seems to...

This breathtaking image features Messier 78 (the central and brightest region), a vibrant nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust. Credit: ESA. Scientists with the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released a fresh batch of...

Sometimes, astronomers get lucky and catch an event they can watch to see how the properties of some of the most massive objects in the universe evolve. That happened in February 2020, when a team of international astronomers led by Dheeraj (DJ) Pasham at MIT...

ESA’s Euclid space mission has released five unprecedented new views of the Universe. These never-before-seen images demonstrate Euclid’s remarkable ability to unravel the secrets of the cosmos. Scientists are now equipped to hunt for rogue planets, study...

One of things that I have enjoyed in my more than 22 years of writing the Night Sky column for Space.com is alerting readers to hoaxes or celestial falsehoods that are widely circulated on the internet. While I have done my best to steer readers clear of such...

Friday, May 24Earlier this month, we checked out the southeastern portion of the Moon to explore the rugged highlands there, including the crater Rheita and its associated valley. The Rheita Valley is actually made of several overlapping craters and associated...

Black holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. This is at least partly due to the extreme physics that takes place in and around them, but sometimes, it might harken back to cultural touchpoints that made them interested in astronomy in the...

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