Supernova ‘rains’ could give rise to mysteriously magnetic dead stars
New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise to mysterious “low-field magnetars.”
February’s Night Sky Notes: How Can You Help Curb Light Pollution?
5 min read February’s Night Sky Notes: How Can You Help Curb Light Pollution? Light pollution has long troubled astronomers, who generally shy away from deep sky observing under full…
Spire and OroraTech win Canadian Space Agency contract for wildfire detection satellites
The Canadian Space Agency awarded a contract Feb. 7 to Spire Global, partnered with OroraTech, to develop a constellation of cubesats to monitor wildfires. The post Spire and OroraTech win…
Golden Moon over the Superdome
NASA/Michael DeMocker The full moon rises over the Superdome and the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday evening, January 13, 2025. New Orleans is home to NASA’s Michoud Assembly…
Tiny spacecraft could travel across interstellar space with this ‘trampoline’ lightsail
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day carry tiny spacecraft to distant star systems.
NASA Explores Earth Science with New Navigational System
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The G-IV aircraft flies overhead in the Mojave Desert near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Baseline…
What Trump’s first weeks back in office mean for space
The second Trump administration has started with a series of rapid changes to how the federal government operates. Here’s what the president introduced in the last week and what it…
Hubble Goes Supernova Hunting
Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits…
There’s a Way to Make Ringworlds and Dyson Spheres Stable
The idea of Dyson Sphere’s has been around for decades. When Freeman Dyson explored the concept he acknowledged that they may not be a physical sphere but could be a…
Water Arrived in the Final Stages of Earth’s Formation
Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The remaining gas and dust settled into a protoplanetary…