We can gaze out into regions in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way and find orgies of star birth. The closest region is in the Orion nebula, where astronomers have identified more than 700 young stars. They range from only 100,000 years—mere infancy for a star—to over a million years.
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NASA concerned SpaceX’s Starship schedule could delay moon landing
Artist’s illustration of the Starship landing system on the moon. Credit: SpaceX
A senior NASA official raised concerns Wednesday that “difficulties” with SpaceX’s development of the huge new Starship rocket could delay the Artemis program’s first moon landing with astronauts from late 2025, a mission that will use a derivative of the Starship vehicle to ferry a two-person crew to and from the lunar surface.
Earth's highest, coldest, rarest clouds are back. How to see the eerie 'noctilucent clouds' this summer.
Look North as the stars appear in June and July to have a chance of seeing rare noctilucent (or 'night-shining') clouds with the naked eye.
James Webb Space Telescope spots faintest galaxy yet in the infant universe (photo)
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed the faintest galaxy yet seen in the early universe, a curious object that lies 13.3 billion light-years from Earth.
Satellite photos show US East Coast engulfed by smoke from Canadian wildfires
The U.S. Northeast woke up to a "horribly smoky day" on Wednesday (June 7) as a low-pressure system funnels toxic smoke from wildfires in Canada across the Atlantic Coast.
Watch ULA test-fire new Vulcan Centaur rocket on the launch pad today
United Launch Alliance plans to conduct a crucial test-firing of its next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket today (June 7), and you can watch it live.
Test-firing of ULA’s first Vulcan rocket on tap today
Watch our live coverage of the Flight Readiness Firing for United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Follow us on Twitter.
Owen Jay Gingerich, 1930–2023
Owen Jay Gingerich, well-known historian of astronomy and contributor to Sky & Telescope for more than half a century, died on May 28, 2023.
NASA's sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe finds source of 'fast' solar wind
Using data collected by NASA's sun-touching Parker Solar Probe, scientists have tracked the "fast" solar wind back to showerhead-like funnels generated by coronal holes.
SLS Could Launch a Sample Return Mission to Phobos and Deimos
NASA’s next colossal rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), recently had its first successful flight back in November after years of development. Much of that development was done by aerospace contractors like Northrop Grumman and Boeing, so it is a good bet that engineers at those companies want the SLS to be seen as a success. One measure of its success will be how many missions it manages to help launch successfully – the more missions, the better. To help plan out some of those missions, a pair of Boeing engineers wrote a paper describing an outline of a sample return mission to Phobos and Deimos. And, of course, it would be launched by the SLS.
James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Hundreds of Galaxies in Early Universe
In the JWST version of the Hubble Deep Field, astronomers are discovering what galactic life was like in the earliest years of the universe.
'The Expanse' actor Cara Gee talks playing Drummer again in the upcoming The Expanse: A Telltale Series (Exclusive)
Cara Gee took some time out of her busy belting schedule to talk to us about working on upcoming The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Nicolas Bobrinsky on space safety | ESA Masterclass
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Satellites in orbit underpin our modern lives. They are used in many areas and disciplines, including space science, Earth observation, meteorology, climate research, telecommunication, navigation and human space exploration. However, as space activities have increased, a new and unexpected hazard has started to emerge: space debris.
25 times Copernicus made the headlines
Twenty-five years ago, Copernicus set out to transform the way we see our planet. Now, well established as the largest environmental monitoring programme in the world, it returns a whopping 16 terabytes of high-quality data every single day. To mark a quarter-century of European success in space, we look back at a selection of 25 Copernicus highlights.
First Mars livestream: the movie
Image: First Mars livestream: the movie
Dark matter atoms may form shadowy galaxies with rapid star formation
Dark matter, the invisible material that makes up the vast majority of the universe's mass, may collect itself to form atoms, a new simulation shows.
New Milky Way map reveals the magnificent messiness of our galaxy
Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected.
How I learned to 'walk on the moon' while flying at 30,000 feet on a stomach-churning airplane ride (video)
Parabolic flights produce reduced gravity by following a wild trajectory of steep climbs and nerve-racking dives. The experience is out of this world, but for this reporter it had its challenges.
Strange star holds 'holy grail' clues about unique supernova explosions in the early universe
Astronomers have discovered the first chemical evidence of pair-instability supernovae from the universe's earliest massive stars in a strange star in the Milky Way’s galactic halo.
20 Years of Mars Express Images Helped Build This Mosaic of the Red Planet
The Mars Express orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first interplanetary mission, entered orbit around Mars on June 2nd, 2003. Since then, the probe has mapped the Martian surface using its High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), an instrument built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with commercial partners. In honor of the mission’s 20th anniversary, a celebration occurred last Friday (June 2nd) at the ESA’s European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
There Are Hundreds of Mysterious Filaments at the Center of the Milky Way
Several million years ago, the core of our galaxy experienced a powerful event. It blew out a huge bi-lobed bubble that blasted through the interstellar medium in two directions. Whatever it was, it released huge amounts of energy from the central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short).
