The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way The heart of the Milky Way as seen by the Subaru Telescope showing the
‘The mission objectives of Chandrayaan-3 have been completely met.’ The Chandrayaan 3 mission’s Vikram lander, photographed on the moon’s surface by the Pragyan rover. (Image credit: ISRO) The spacecraft that ferried India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander-rover duo to the moon has returned home
A river of gas emanating from two tiny galaxies in the Milky Way’s outskirts hosts stars after all. (Image credit: CfA / Melissa Weiss) A river of hydrogen gas flows outward from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf
Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, has been found to be spinning — and dragging space-time along with it. CNN — The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly
Liftoff occurred at 11:20 p.m. ET on Nov. 27. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with 23 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. (Image credit:
CNN — An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could one day help NASA missions probe deeper into space and uncover more discoveries
‘We are back on track towards resecuring Europe’s autonomous access to space. Well done to all involved!’ A test article of Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket conducts a hot-fire test with its core-stage engine on Nov. 23, 2023 (Image credit: ESA)
It was the second explosive moment for the biggest rocket ever built, but SpaceX hailed it as a success. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — SpaceX’s giant Starship has met another explosive end. SpaceX‘s next-generation megarocket — the largest ever built
To be clear, there’s nothing to worry about. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover, on April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of
The system calculated more than 3.7 million molecules it could make from six different metallic elements in the rocks. Gullies on Mars, at roughly 71 degrees latitude in the southern hemisphere. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) Using meteorites from Mars,