ISS Takes a Spin after New Module Accidentally Fires Thrusters after Docking
The entire Russian International Space Station (ISS) went out of position yesterday after a new Russian science module in the last decade – the station’s…
Astronomy
Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are not Astronauts, Say Recently Updated US Guidelines
The bad news, millionaires, on the same day that Jeff Bezos blew up Blue Origin’s inaugural crew spaceflight, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) updated…
From Flying Boats to Secret Soviet Weapons to Alien Visitors – a Brief Cultural History of UFOs
On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine-page preliminary report on UFOs, or, as they now calls them, the Unknown Aerial Phenomena, or…
Amateur Astronomer has Discovered a Moon of Jupiter for the First Time
Kai Lee is an amateur astronomer with a great record. Not only did they find the four lost moons of Jupiter, but they also discovered…
The Galactic Bar of the Milky Way is Slowing down due to Dark Matter
Astrophysicists have predicted such a slowdown for 30 years, but this is the first time it has been measured. According to the researchers, it provides…
How does a Super Massive Black Hole Form
Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses tens of millions to billions of times that of our sun. The Milky Way is…
The Way the Universe Reflects in the Vicinity of Black Holes
Space is so warped in the vicinity of black holes that even light rays may curve around them several times. This phenomenon may allow us…
Video Shows how Long it would Take a Ball to Drop on Different Planets
Astronaut Alan Shepard famously hit his golf ball on the surface of the moon with lust 36 meters (118 feet) and scientists from the International…
The “Mountains” On a Neutron Star are Only Millimetres Tall, New Models Suggest
Neutron stars are the densest matter in the universe. Something as big a city has a much more compressed mass than the Sun. They have…
The Interior of Mars has Finally been Revealed Thanks to Hundreds of Quakes
NASA’s Insight has spent several years on Mars with (almost literally) ears cut off the ground. Its sophisticated seismometer has been used by Marscakes to…
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