A Chinese Long March 11 rocket launches April 30 from a barge in the East China Sea. Credit: CASC
Two Chinese rockets, including one launched from an ocean-going platform in the East China Sea, deployed seven optical Earth-imaging satellites in a pair of successful missions last week.
Plakha Alexander — amateur astronomer, owner of Astro-Gadget.net, and Ukrainian — shares his experiences since Russia's invasion began.
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According to the new decadal survey, one of the best tools to help protect the planet against the impact of near-Earth Objects (NEOs) is ground-based planetary radar.
Post-starburst galaxies were once thought to expel their star-forming gas, creating a dormant galaxy. But new data shows otherwise.
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China will launch six major missions before the end of the year to complete its Tiangong space station, which could soon link up with a powerful telescope and host international astronauts.
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Rocket Lab has just joined SpaceX in the club of space companies that can launch an orbital-class rocket booster and bring it back alive.
Rocket Lab caught a returning booster with a helicopter during an orbital launch today (May 2), notching a huge milestone for the company and its quest to make its Electron rocket partially reusable.
In April of 2019, the international astronomical consortium known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made headlines worldwide when it announced the first-ever image of a black hole. Specifically, the image showed the glowing disk surrounding the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the M87 galaxy. In 2021, they followed up on this by acquiring an image of the core region of the Centaurus A galaxy and the radio jet emanating from it.
The images released by the James Webb Space Telescope team last week aren’t officially ‘first light’ images from the new telescope, but in a way, it feels like they are. These stunning views provide the initial indications of just how powerful JWST will be, and just how much infrared astronomy is about to improve.
If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven’t we heard from them? Those are the simple questions at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. In a new paper, a pair of researchers ask the next obvious question: how long will we have to survive to hear from another alien civilization?
NASA is asking the public to comment on an environmental assessment for its Mars sample return effort.
NASA's new deep-space observatory will soon move between hot and cold in a crucial test of its infrared viewing capabilities.
May offers an unusual skywatching bounty: the possibility of two major celestial highlights occurring within the span of a single month.
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1A on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying 34 small picosatellites and CubeSats. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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This is reminiscent of going down slide on the playground – and then immediately getting back in line to go down again. Except in space.
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