Space and astronomy news
James Webb delivers scientific results, SLS and Starship go closer to their maiden flights, remote surgery robot is going to the ISS, Perseverance continues to find weird stuff on Mars, and Hubble is still going strong. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
Continue reading “JWST’s Science, Surgeon Robot for ISS, Booster 7 Test Fire”
An interstellar meteorite could be hiding in the ocean. Why doesn’t Jupiter have rings like Saturn. The time when Earth’s magnetic field almost collapsed. The shortest day on Earth, and Planet 9 is running out of places to hide. All this and more in this week’s episode of Space Bites.
Continue reading “Interstellar Meteorite, Shortest Day Ever, Magnetosphere Collapse”
JWST is doing after its micrometeorite strike, two more helicopters are flying to Mars, China will drop a 50+ meter booster… somewhere, and how do you stop the Milky Way from turning into self-replicating robot probes.
Continue reading “JWST Damage, New Mars Helicopters, Teaching Robots to Die”
SLS finally gets a launch date for Artemis I, JWST keeps giving the goodness, Percy finds another weird thing on Mars, astronomers find a dormant black hole and NASA will launch a flagship telescope on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
Continue reading “SLS Launch Date, Falcon Heavy Gets Flagship NASA Telescope, Dormant Black Hole”
Even more pictures from James Webb Space Telescope, China’s planning a mission to Neptune, SpaceX’s Booster 7 suffers from an explosion, black holes are messy eaters, going under Europa’s ice crust and more.
Continue reading “Booster 7’s BOOM, Nuclear Mission to Neptune, More JWST Images”
Here’s a hypothetical situation. Imagine we got visited by aliens who came from another star system. Not to conquer us or to share their secrets. Instead, imagine they just came as tourists visiting our Solar System. Now, here’s a question. What should we show them as our best tourist attraction?
Continue reading “Most Outstanding Feature of the Solar System. It’s Not What You Think”
In this week’s breaking space news: CAPSTONE mission was lost and found again, James Webb gets another stunning image, Mars plane can follow Ingenuity, a mystery of first quasars possibly solved, incredibly fast star discovered and more.
Continue reading “30,000,000 km/h Star, Flex from the JWST Team, Mystery of Quasars Solved”
NASA teases JWST images, Rocket Lab launches CAPSTONE, mystery rocket’s crash site found on the Moon, how magnetars are created, ISS gets more independent from Russia and more.
Continue reading “Mystery Rocket Crash Site, ISS Independence, Space Nuclear Power”
Perseverance found its parachute, JWST cooling down its experiments, Standard Model once again in danger, Space Force releasing data to scientists, yet another approach for expensive space tourism and more top news stories of this week.
Continue reading “$500 000 for Moon Dust, Boson Breaking Physics, New Approach to Space Tourism”