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...
1.6 billion stars. 11.4 million galaxies. 158,000 asteroids.
One spacecraft.
The European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory, which launched in 2013, has long surpassed its goal of charting more than a billion stars in the Milky...
The commercial space industry is experiencing growth, with an increasing number of companies seeking to launch satellites, spacecraft, and even tourists into space. This growth in demand has led to a perceived need...
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...
Even while government and the private sector were working together to build America’s greatest economic successes, the narrative increasingly turned against any...
YPSat Prepared for Ariane 6 Inaugural Flight
by Erica Marchand
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2024
ESA's Young Professionals Satellite, YPSat, being checked out in a cleanroom...
"The Sun is playing a secret melody, hidden inside itself, that produces a widespread throbbing motion of its surface. The sounds are coursing through...
ESA and NASA Evaluate Lunar I-Hab Living Conditions
by Erica Marchand
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2024
Lunar I-Hab, the next European habitat in lunar orbit as...
Flashes of CreationPaul HalpernBasic Books, $30
The Big Bang wasn’t always a sure bet. For several decades in the 20th century, researchers wrestled with interpreting...