Gitanjali Rao was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal Junior, an award created to inspire young innovators. The post STARMUS Launches the Stephen Hawking Medal Junior at The Kennedy Center appeared first on Astronomy Magazine. Continue ReadingSTARMUS Launches the Stephen Hawking Medal Junior at The Kennedy Center
Disney has revealed its third animated Star Wars anthology series, which takes us deeper into the galaxy’s darkest corners through the eyes of two infamous bounty hunters. Continue ReadingFamiliar faces return in ‘Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld’, which hits Disney+ on May the 4th (video)
Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. Continue ReadingSpaceX Fram2 astronauts see ‘pure white’ Antarctica from polar orbit: Space photo of the day
The European Space Agency’s new documentary short tackles the question of whether space debris has reached crisis level. Continue ReadingESA’s new documentary paints worrying picture of Earth’s orbital junk problem
Gothenburg, Sweden (April 2, 2025) – The Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) has awarded Frontgrade Gaisler, a leading provider of radiation-hardened microprocessors for space missions, a contract to commercialize the […] The post Frontgrade Gaisler Launches New GRAIN Line and Wins SNSA Contract to Commercialize First Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic AI for Space Applications appeared first on SpaceNews.
While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early months of 2025. So far, debris from SpaceX and Blue Origin rockets has landed in locations including the Bahamas, Florida, Poland, and Turks and Caicos and caused flight delays at airports in Florida. On February 18, NASA estimated that asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032—the highest probability of impact ever recorded by the agency—although they later reduced that estimate to 0.004%.
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming protostars and insights into the impact of strong magnetic fields on interstellar gas and the life cycle of stars.
Private launch companies Rocket Lab and Stoke Space have been selected to compete for future U.S. national security space launches. Continue ReadingUS Space Force picks Rocket Lab and Stoke Space to compete for national security launches
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Here, a massive and dense cloud of interstellar gas and dust has collapsed on itself over millions of years to form thousands of new stars.
They say music is the universal language of humankind, but some stars in our galaxy exhibit their own rhythm, offering fresh clues into how they and our galaxy evolved over time.
Scientists have successfully fermented miso aboard the International Space Station, marking the first deliberate food fermentation in space that may open up new culinary possibilities for astronauts on long-term missions. Continue ReadingSpace miso is nuttier than Earth miso — but it’s still miso
An international team led by UNIGE shows that red and dead galaxies can be found only 700 million years after the Big Bang, indicating that galaxies stop forming stars earlier than predicted by models.
This streaming deal is a great alternative to Disney Plus as you can get three months of Starz for just $2.99 and watch Marvel content for less. Continue ReadingYou can still get 73% Starz for three months and watch some Marvel content following the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement
A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Continue ReadingIncredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space
Asteroid 2024 YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) on January 29, 2025. The early calculations predicted an impact probability of 1.3% with Earth on December 22nd, 2032, and estimated its size to be between 40 and 90 meters.
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter exoplanet located more than 1,000 light years away. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2005 b, is about the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star on a highly eccentric orbit. The discovery was reported March 25 on the arXiv pre-print server.
With NASA’s Artemis program preparing for the first crewed moon landing since 1972, four commercial space stations in development, and companies like SpaceX setting their sights on Mars, long-duration human […] The post Biotech is the launchpad for human survival in space appeared first on SpaceNews.
A California man has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and photographing the installation. Continue ReadingDrone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail
Sky watchers The University of Arizona PressTucson, AZ Star Gazers: Finding Joy in the Night Sky, by prolific astronomy writer David H. Levy, is a collection of personal essays celebrating amateur and professional astronomy. Bringing together his decades of sky-watching experience, this 172-page book gives readers insight into Levy’s thoughts on James Webb Space Telescope,Continue reading “Spring for new astronomy products this month” The post Spring for new astronomy products this month appeared first on Astronomy Magazine. Continue ReadingSpring for new astronomy products this month
The company was awarded an SBIR Phase 3 contract to further develop satellite “fingerprinting” technology The post Slingshot adapting satellite ‘fingerprinting’ technology for military applications appeared first on SpaceNews.
