Space

‘Captain America: Brave New World’ introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics?

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Harrison Ford in Captain America: Brave New World

The fourth Captain America movie, Captain America: Brave New World, is finally out and has been met with middling critical reviews. Despite that, fans are already dissecting every new character and plot development that’s transpired as they eagerly await The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Thunderbolts. Most intriguing is the introduction of adamantium in this … Read more

The Milky Way’s black hole flickers and flares

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Milky Way's black hole: Illustration of a black hole with flares of light around the disk.

This artist’s concept portrays the Milky Way‘s black hole. This supermassive black hole sits at the core of our galaxy and goes by the name of Sagittarius A* (A-star). It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas. The black hole’s gravity bends light from the far side of the disk, making it appear … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy’s supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video)

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an orange-and-yellow orb on a black-and-blue mottled background

The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal, endlessly blowing cosmic bubbles. The findings aren’t frivolous at all and could help us better understand how black holes interact with their environments and help galaxies evolve. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way’s central … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope learns how a cosmic phoenix cools off to birth stars

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A purple blob (the same image as header) that shows were the cooling gas is located, as seen by the JWST, and where the jet inflated bubbles are inflated, as seen by other telescopes. Both are in the middle of the purple blob, but the bubbles region is slightly lower.

How do you cool down a phoenix? I don’t mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may finally have the answer. They used the powerful instrument to investigate the extreme cooling of gas in the Phoenix … Read more

Speediest exoplanet found near Milky Way center?

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Hundreds of stars in space, many of them with short trails behind them. A bright one has a long red trail.

View larger. | Artist’s visualization of stars near the center of the Milky Way. The longer the trail of each star, the faster it is moving. Scientists have discovered what might be the speediest exoplanet system yet. It’s depicted with a long bright trail at center. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC). Stars move … Read more

Why won’t the Blaze Star explode? (and how YOU can see it when it does)

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Animation of Blaze Star, showing an expanding white dwarf and red giant.

The Blaze Star isn’t one star but 2. It’s a binary system with a white dwarf and red giant. The Blaze Star’s white dwarf has built up material on its surface, siphoned off from the red giant star. Periodically, it “can’t take no more” and explodes, about every 80 years. Despite the powerful explosion, the … Read more

‘Sailing’ satellites of the future could provide early warning of dangerous space weather

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A line of NASA engineers posing with a silver solar sail.

NEW ORLEANS — Solar sails that allow satellites to glide on the light from the sun could soon become a reality. The technology would allow scientists to provide earlier warnings of space weather events such as geomagnetic storms, which have the potential to disrupt technological systems on Earth. “A lot of us have experienced sailing; … Read more

Tom Hanks’ ‘The Moonwalkers’ makes US premiere at Space Center Houston

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footage from the launch of a rocket is projected onto a giant movie screen as well as the theater's walls and floor

It is not unusual to see a Saturn V launch while viewing a film at Space Center Houston. Never before, though, has that spectacle stretched beyond the center’s five-story-tall screen to fill the theater’s walls and extend out onto the floor. That is what happens now with the premiere of “The Moonwalkers: A Journey with … Read more

How Sen’s 4K live cameras on the ISS offer a new perspective from space (op-ed)

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24/7 Live 4K video of Earth and space: Livestream of Earth by Sen’s 4K video cameras on the ISS - YouTube

24/7 Live 4K video of Earth and space: Livestream of Earth by Sen’s 4K video cameras on the ISS – YouTube Watch On Charles Black is Founder and CEO of Sen. Looking at our planet from space gives you a different view of life on Earth, one which has the power to change the way … Read more

Pale Blue Dot 35 years later: Earth in a sunbeam

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Pale blue dot: An image of bluish space, with streaks of sunlight crossing it, and with a single dot - Earth - within one of the sunbeams.

View larger. | In this image from Voyager 1 – acquired on February 14, 1990, from a distance slightly past the orbit of Saturn – planet Earth appears as a pale blue dot within the sunbeam, just right of center. As you can see, the blue glow of Earth occupies less than a single pixel … Read more