[ad_1] In 2005, astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz announced the discovery of a previously unknown planetoid in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. The team named this object Eris after the Greek personification of strife...

[ad_1] Agency 01/12/2023 870 views 30 likes Six years of hard work and dedication paid off in spectacular fashion today, as the Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, successfully blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Hitching a ride on a...

[ad_1] SpaceX added 23 more satellites to its Starlink internet constellation on Saturday night (Dec. 2).A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the communications satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT on Dec....

[ad_1] Alpha Centauri (the yellow star just to the right of center) is the closest bright star to Earth. At 4.35 light-years away, on a scale model where Earth is the size of a bacterium, this star would sit 4.34 miles (nearly 7 km) distant. Credit: Alan Dyer In...

[ad_1] A team of researchers led by University of Chicago astronomer Rafael Luque analyzed data acquired by both NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) and found a unique planetary system. Orbiting a...

[ad_1] On 1 December 2023, at 19:19 CET (18:18 GMT), Ireland's first satellite EIRSAT-1 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. Built by students at University College Dublin under guidance of ESA’s Education Office, EIRSAT-1 is a 2-unit CubeSat...

[ad_1] 'Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder': Key information• Airs at 6:30pm (GMT), 1:30pm (ET) and 10:30am (PT) on Saturday, December 2• UK: Watch for FREE on BBC One and BBC iPlayer• Away from home: Use a VPN such as ExpressVPN to watch your usual service from...

[ad_1] An artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b whose color may appear bluish to human eyes due to the lack of high-altitude clouds and the presence of atmospheric methane identified by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, similar to the planets Uranus and...

[ad_1] Universe Today recently examined the potential for sending humans to the planet Venus despite its extremely harsh surface conditions. But while a human mission to the clouds of Venus could be feasible given the environmental conditions are much more Earth-like,...

[ad_1] The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows us an amazing view of the tropical island of Tutuila, the largest in the American Samoa archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn...