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2 'new stars' have exploded into the night sky in recent weeks — and both are visible to the naked eye

1 week ago from Live Science

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that simultaneous stellar explosions have been visible to the naked eye...

New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor

1 week ago from European Space Agency

At the Living Planet Symposium, attendees have been hearing how ESA’s Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first opportunity to directly track a vital ocean circulation system that warms...

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon?

1 week ago from European Space Agency

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid’s...

A new adventure on the International Space Station

1 week ago from European Space Agency

Video: 00:04:13 Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA head of Space and Robotic Exploration, explains that Ignis mission will include an ambitious technological and scientific programme with several experiments led by ESA and proposed...

Plato’s eyes meet brain

1 week ago from European Space Agency

Video: 00:01:38 On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission. They used a special crane to lift Plato’s payload module, housing its 26...

MTG-S1 satellite hosting the Sentinel-4 instrument is ready for liftoff

1 week ago from European Space Agency

The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, which is hosting the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has been placed inside the nose cone of the Falcon 9 launch rocket...

Watch: Glen Powell stars in 'The Running Man' action remake

1 week ago from UPI

Paramount Pictures is teasing a remake of the 1987 film "The Running Man," starring Glen Powell and arriving in theaters Nov. 7.

Watch: Taylor Kitsch stars in 'Terminal List' prequel 'Dark Wolf'

1 week ago from UPI

Prime Video is previewing the "Terminal List" prequel series, "The Terminal List: Dark Wolf," ahead of its Aug. 27 premiere. Taylor Kitsch and Chris Pratt star.

Watch: Leanne Morgan stars in Netflix sitcom 'Leanne'

1 week ago from UPI

Comedian Leanne Morgan plays the titular character in the upcoming Netflix sitcom "Leanne," which arrives on the streamer July 31. The show is co-created by Chuck Lorre.

Dan Stevens to voice Solitus in new 'Lego Star Wars' special

1 week ago from UPI

"Downton Abbey" actor Dan Stevens is joining the cast of "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past," a new four-part sequel series to "Rebuild the Galaxy."

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

16 weeks ago from Newswise - Scinews

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history

SpaceX calls off Crew-10 astronaut launch for NASA due to hydraulics issue (video)

16 weeks ago from Space.com

SpaceX scrubbed today's (March 12) planned launch of the Crew-10 astronaut mission for NASA due to a ground-system hydraulics issue.

El X-59 de la NASA completa las pruebas electromagnéticas

16 weeks ago from Science @ NASA

4 min readEl X-59 de la NASA completa las pruebas electromagnéticas El avión de investigación F-15D de la NASA está posicionado junto al X-59 durante las pruebas de compatibilidad electromagnética en la Planta...

SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts depart for launch pad ahead of liftoff (video, photos)

16 weeks ago from Space.com

The SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts have departed NASA's checkout facility at Kennedy Space Center and are bound for the launch pad ahead of their imminent liftoff.

Astronauts prepare for International Space Station launch; biomedical, materials, physical sciences work planned

16 weeks ago from Physorg

Four crew members will embark on a new long-duration science expedition when they launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft as...

NASA’s Record-Shattering, Theory-Breaking MMS Mission Turns 10

16 weeks ago from Science @ NASA

5 min readNASA’s Record-Shattering, Theory-Breaking MMS Mission Turns 10 Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that...

Sols 4477-4478:  Bumping Back to Business

16 weeks ago from Science @ NASA

Curiosity NavigationCuriosity HomeMission OverviewWhere is Curiosity?Mission UpdatesScienceOverviewInstrumentsHighlightsExploration GoalsNews and FeaturesMultimediaCuriosity Raw ImagesImagesVideosAudioMosaicsMore ResourcesMars MissionsMars Sample ReturnMars Perseverance RoverMars Curiosity RoverMAVENMars Reconnaissance OrbiterMars OdysseyMore Mars MissionsMars Home 2 min readSols 4477-4478:  Bumping Back to Business NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity...

Water in the universe may have formed closer to the Big Bang than previously thought

16 weeks ago from Space.com

"We were surprised that water could actually form so early on — even before the birth of the first galaxies."

Secrets in the shadows: What lunar eclipses teach us about Earth

16 weeks ago from Space.com

For starters, they taught us that Earth is round

Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down—and the source is not what astronomers expected

16 weeks ago from Physorg

In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period transients.

Black holes spew out powerful jets that span millions of light-years. We're trying to understand their whole life cycle

16 weeks ago from Physorg

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called Sagittarius A*). Supermassive black holes are the densest objects in...

Video: Time lapse simulation of Hera's Mars flyby

16 weeks ago from Physorg

On 12 March 2025, ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid...

NASA's SPHEREx science probe heads to orbit | Space photo of the day March 12, 2025

16 weeks ago from Space.com

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA science probes on March 11, 2025 in a spectacular nighttime liftoff from California after multiple delays.

Who is Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds? Exploring the big bad guy for Marvel's 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps'

16 weeks ago from Space.com

Here's a planet-draining primer on Galactus, the new 'Fantastic Four' movie's larger-than-life villain.

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

16 weeks ago from Newswise - Scinews

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, has achieved a major milestone with the installation of...

Sun Rises on Crew-10 at Launch Pad

16 weeks ago from Science @ NASA

SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen during sunrise on the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, March 11,...

Black holes: Not endings, but beginnings? Theoretical study delves into 'white holes'

16 weeks ago from Physorg

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionized, as new University of Sheffield research helps unravel the mysteries of the...

Amid tense clashes between NASA and Musk, two NASA science missions launch on SpaceX rocket

16 weeks ago from LA Times - Science

Tense, public squabbles between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA have stirred the space industry, but behind the scenes, space science has continued business as (almost) normal.