by admin | May 21, 2023 | astonomy, Nasa, News, Planets, space, Space News, The Conversation
When stars like our Sun die, they tend to go out with a whimper and not a bang – unless they happen to be part of a binary (two) star system that could give rise to a supernova explosion. Now, for the first time, astronomers have spotted the radio signature of just... by admin | May 15, 2023 | Astrophysics, News, Planets, space, Space News, The Conversation
For the first time, astronomers have captured images that show a star consuming one of its planets. The star, named ZTF SLRN-2020, is located in the Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation Aquila. As the star swallowed its planet, the star brightened to 100 times its... by admin | Sep 25, 2022 | Earth, Mars, Mars rover, Nasa, News, Other Tech News, Planets, Space News, The Conversation
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, nations have sent 18 human-made objects to Mars over 14 separate missions. Many of these missions are still ongoing, but over the decades... by admin | Sep 25, 2022 | Nasa, News, Other Tech News, Planets, space, Space News, The Conversation
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few particularly interesting planets orbiting in the habitable... by admin | Sep 17, 2022 | Nasa, News, Planets, space, Space News, SpaceX, The Conversation
More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris has been described as a “fatal problem” for current and future space missions and human space travel. An estimated 130 million objects smaller than...