A Russian military satellite named Luch-2 was found closely approaching a geostationary satellite last month, a maneuver that follows in the footsteps of its predecessor that was found eavesdropping on other nations' satellites on multiple occasions since 2014.Aldoria, a French startup that tracks satellites in orbit using a network of ground-based telescopes, alerted satellite...
SpaceXA major Starship test and two private Dragon flightsIn the next few weeks we should see the first orbital launch of SpaceX’s massive new Starship vehicle. They recently completed a firing of 31 of...
The H-R diagram was created around 1910 by Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell, plotting stars’ absolute magnitudes or luminosities against their colors or temperatures. It shows that stellar properties are not random but...
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...
In this composite image, derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, shows the...
We went into our respective cancer treatments. Amaey did indeed become confined in isolation after his irradiation and transplant---but I heard from his teacher Leslie that...
This week, NASA will retire their Reuven Ramaty High Energy Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft. RHESSI, which has been orbiting the earth since 2002 is planned...
Gaia mission offers opportunities to search for compact binaries not involved in binary interactions (hereafter inert compact binaries), and results in the discoveries of...