What’s Phil thinking of NOW? GAIA

What’s Phil thinking? He’s thinking about the wealth of knowledge about our home galaxy, the Milky…

Good Thing We Found this Earth-Sized Planet Now. It’s About to Be Destroyed

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanets with extremely small orbits around their stars. But what…

Scientists Develop a Novel Method for Detecting Supermassive Black Holes: Use Smaller Black Holes!

In 1974, astronomers Bruce Balick and Robert L. Brown discovered a powerful radio source at the…

An Ancient Martian Lake Was Larger Than Any Lake on Earth

The ESA’s Mars Express orbiter captured an image of the remains of a vast ancient lake…

Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on ISS and discover surprising quirks of zero-G life

Credit: NASA/International Space Station Archaeological Project, CC BY New results from the first archaeological fieldwork conducted…

Gaia Finds Hundreds of Asteroid Moons

The amazing Gaia mission to chart stars in the Milky Way Galaxy is also an expert…

Chinese rocket breakup creates large field of space debris in low Earth orbit

The upper stage of a Chinese Long March 6A rocket fragmented into over 700 pieces in…

Blue Origin tests out New Glenn rocket recovery crane at Port Canaveral

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With the first launch of Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket still…

Meet the two Boeing mission astronauts stuck aboard the ISS

Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams were originally scheduled to spend a little more than…

The K7RA Solar Update

08/09/2024 “ASWFC GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE WARNING ISSUED AT 0211UT/09 AUGUST 2024 BY THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING…