We completed a half orbit around the Sun since I wrote the November Night Sky. It felt like yesterday, but it has been 6 months ago. The time is cruel…
The days are already quite a bit longer and are still getting longer. Stargazing is getting more difficult in this part of the world. However,...
The practical knowledge from NASA-funded discoveries and the inventions that enabled them fall under the rubric of “spinoffs.” Although the term fits nicely into the concept of the invention-discovery cycle, spinoff is...
It first appeared as a glowing blob from ground-based telescopes and then vanished completely in images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, the ghostly object has reappeared as a faint, yet distinct galaxy in...
In November 2023, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed a massive cluster of galaxies named MACS J0138.0-2155. Through an effect called gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein, a distant galaxy named MRG-M0138 appears...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
Eye-patches on! Practice your best "grrr." Plop down pieces of eight, doubloons and cue "Captain" Jack Sparrow!Get ready for the First Annual Space Piracy Conference,...
MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to live in our own...
HELSINKI — China has carried out a pair of solid rocket launches and sent a communications satellite towards geostationary orbit for Pakistan.
A Long March...