Space Exploration

NASA has released beautiful new images of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from the tenth close flyby of its Juno spacecraft. This illustration depicts Juno soaring over Jupiter’s swirling cloud tops. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kevin M. Gill. Juno launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape …

An international team of scientists led by Professor Hanns-Christian Gunga of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin has observed that astronauts run hot when exposed to weightlessness, and that, even at rest, their core body temperature is around one degree Celsius above the normal value. The results appear in the journal Scientific Reports. Stahn …

Astronomers have been able to detect scores of exoplanets in orbit of distant stars, but actually taking pictures of them is extremely difficult. To date, only a few dozen exoplanets have been directly imaged, and only those with very large diameters can be spotted at all. A new technology discussed …

China’s first space station had a good run, but it’s about time for the Tiangong-1 to pack it in. China reports the station will fall out of orbit sometime in March, but it doesn’t know exactly when or where that will happen. There is some concern that pieces of the …

Astronomers started checking out a novel star a few years ago called KIC 8462852. A series of fluctuations in the star’s brightness brought up a number of interesting possibilities. Perhaps the star had dust clouds or gaggles of comets that periodically blocked out the light. That’s interesting in an expected …

Lurking in the heart of most large galaxies is a supermassive black hole holding it all together. According to new research from the University of California Santa Cruz, these supermassive black holes could also spell eventual doom for galaxies. They might not just be gobbling up nearby stars, but could …

SpaceX has ironed out all the wrinkles with its Falcon 9 launches, but it’s about to try something new and potentially crazy. In a few weeks, SpaceX is expected to launch its first Falcon Heavy rocket. This vehicle will be the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor …

On October 2, 2017, just ten days after performing an Earth Gravity Assist maneuver, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft pointed its camera suite back toward Earth and used the MapCam instrument to capture images of our planet and its only natural satellite. This color composite image of the Earth and Moon is …

Area business Vector and blockchain designer Nexus revealed a partnership to host Nexus’s decentralized cryptocurrency on a satellite orbiting the Earth, utilizing Vector’s GalacticSky platform. Inning accordance with the developers, Nexus innovation provides enhancements over existing blockchain systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Nexus cryptography with 571-bit secrets, which …

If you enjoyed the US total solar eclipse last year, then we’ve got a reward for you at the start of 2018. There’s going to be a total lunar eclipse on January 31, and it accompanies a “Blue Moon” for the first time because 1866. A lunar eclipse happens when …