Tag Archives: Science

Watch as SpaceX rocket blasts off to the Moon

The Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying two lunar landers and a micro rover.

Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight

A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where

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Author: Tiernan P. Doyle

SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon (photos)

Blue Ghost and Resilience have left their home planet.

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Author: Josh Dinner

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Launches Two Probes as Race to Moon Heats Up

SpaceX launched a pair of commercial satellites carrying lunar rovers as competition intensifies in the private sector’s race to the moon.

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Author: Nicholas Takahashi

SpaceX to launch two moon missions on one rocket

A SpaceX rocket is set to launch a pair of lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and Ispace’s Hakuto-R — on a journey to our closest celestial neighbor.

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Author: Jackie Wattles

More supermassive black holes lurking in universe than previously thought

A new study suggests more supermassive black holes may be lurking in the universe than previously thought.

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Author: Ryan Morwood

Spacecraft captures high-def images of Mercury during close flyby

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high-def photos.

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Author: Earth.com

Watch the live as SpaceX launch two new private Moon landers – one of which is a phoenix, and the other a ghost

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Author: Ezzy Pearson

Falcon 9 set to launch two landers to the Moon on the same mission

SpaceX is set to fly not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on…

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Author: Justin Davenport

SpaceX is launching Blue Ghost and Resilience landers to the moon

Two companies, Firefly Aerospace and ispace, are aiming to make the second and third successful private landings on the moon – and both are launching on the same Falcon 9 rocket

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Here’s what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander

Blue Ghost is carrying a scary amount of science.

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Author: Josh Dinner

First-ever detection of a mid-infrared flare in Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s supermassive massive black hole

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive massive black …

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Author: Norbert Junkes

Species of Deep Sea Bug The Size of a Small Dog Named For Star Wars Villain

Embrace the dark side.

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Author: Tessa Koumoundouros

New “giant marine pillbug” looks like Darth Vader and tastes like lobster

What has 14 legs, lives at the bottom of the sea, and looks like Darth Vader? It’s a newly discovered species of supergiant isopod, and should you happen to be in Vietnam sometime soon, you can buy one and eat it.

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Author: https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth/

Feeding supermassive black holes are more common than thought across the universe

“If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an accreting supermassive black hole.”

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Author: Robert Lea

Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think

Only 10.2% of astrobiologists disagree with the claim that intelligent aliens likely exist.

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Author: Sean McMahon

Mars hides behind the Full Wolf Moon in gorgeous photos from around the world

The Red Planet adorably peeks out in these stunning views of the Full Wolf Moon.

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Author: Brett Tingley

Surveys of the scientific community on the existence of extraterrestrial life

Nature Astronomy – During February–June 2024 we conducted four surveys among researchers regarding the likely existence of basic, complex, and intelligent extraterrestrial life. Our results…

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Author: Nature

Strange Flashes Could Be Signs of Closest Object Seen Near a Black Hole

Living on the edge.

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Author: Michelle Starr

Mystery in Space: A Supermassive Black Hole Defies Cosmic Rules

A supermassive black hole 100 million light-years away is behaving like nothing scientists have ever seen, emitting X-ray flashes at a pace that keeps accelerating. Could a spinning white dwarf be teetering on the edge of the unknown? The answers may rewrite what we know about the cosmos.

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Author: Chourouk Derkaoui