In the more than 60 years since the Space Age began, humans have sent more than 6,740 rockets to space. According to the ESA’s Space Debris Office, this has resulted in 56,450 objects in orbit; about 36,860 of these objects are regularly tracked and maintained in a catalog, while 10,200 are still functioning. The rest … Read more
Vast Space is taking big steps toward putting the first commercial space station in orbit. The California-based startup recently completed a major testing milestone for the qualification vessel of its upcoming Haven-1 station, a benchmark Vast also used to reevaluate the launch date for the company’s first flight-ready module. “With the completion of our primary … Read more
If lunar tectonic activity is more prevalent than thought, the landing gear design for the tall Starship HLS may need to be broader and more stable. Credit: NASA More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with tectonic activity and moonquakes that … Read more
By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called “gravitational waves” that propagate away from colliding black holes, scientists could reveal hidden asymmetries in the universe. The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an … Read more
More than 4,000 small earthquakes have been rattling the Greek islands around Santorini and near the underwater volcano Kolumbo. The bigger the dot, the bigger the quake; the darker the dot, the deeper the quake. So what’s going on? Experts from the German Research Center for Geosciences explain what’s happening with the Santorini earthquake swarm … Read more
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost “planetary embryos” from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system’s formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation. Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, (246) … Read more
For more than five years, astronomers have sounded alarms about the effect satellite megaconstellations would have on their observations. The launch in 2019 of the first Starlink satellites, initially bright enough to be seen by the naked eye, led astronomers to spring to action to both raise awareness about the threat and to work with … Read more
The main feature of the BT-127XL-SD is the pair of 5-inch apochromatic lenses, which are among the largest available for binoculars. Credit: Oberwerk I have always enjoyed looking at the sky on a clear night through binoculars. Seeing through individual optics for each eye creates a feeling of being in space. It’s different than looking … Read more
The odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 have increased to 1 in 43. Despite this, you still shouldn’t worry about the potential impact of this asteroid. That’s because experts expected the impact probability of this asteroid, which sits at the top of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies Sentry asteroid … Read more
Continuing the evolution of Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) as the budding superhero named Invincible, a teen trying to strike out and create his own identity while steering away from the violent legacy of his father, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons), Prime Video’s adult-aimed animated series “Invincible” Season 3 launched on Feb. 6 in a three-episode debut with … Read more