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Boeing's Starliner capsule launches, but runs into more trouble with helium leaks
CBS News· 3 days agoA United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Wednesday and safely boosted Boeing's...
The Physics of Failure: Analyzing Hubble’s Gyroscope Malfunction
SciTechDaily· 11 hours agoThe Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode due to gyroscope problems, suspending its...
James Webb telescope finds carbon at the dawn of the universe, challenging our understanding of when...
LiveScience· 4 hours agoThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a key building block of life at the dawn of the universe, upending what we know about the first galaxies... — marks the ...
Digital Cameras Revolutionized Astronomy. Then They Found Their Way into Your Pocket
Scientific American· 14 hours agoAs a human being, every time I see a new jaw-droppingly gorgeous astronomical image, I’m staggered...
Soaring through space | Astronomy Magazine
Astronomy Magazine· 5 days agoThe Seagull Nebula spans the constellations of Canis Major and Monoceros. Its head is the emission nebula IC 2177 and its broad, billowing wings are part of Sharpless 2–296. Note the bow shock ...
Australia's 'Space Gandalf' astronomer dies aged 62
BBC via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoGreg Quicke used his self-taught astronomy knowledge to become a popular figure on TV [BBC] An Australian astronomer who appeared on the BBC's...
What's causing a weird, repeating signal from space? Astronomers are stumped.
Astronomy Magazine· 11 hours agoWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of...
Hourly radio signal from space has scientists stumped: ‘We can’t quite explain what’s going on here’
NY Post via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThere is a mysterious radio frequency reaching Earth from the far stretches of space. South African...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope will function with one gyro | Astronomy.com
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoAfter repeated interruptions due to a faltering gyroscope, the Hubble Space Telescope will...
Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoAn interstellar probe could help scientists answer fundamental questions about how the Sun...