Ade Ashford goes camping to test a compact and easy-to-set-up telescope shelter designed for trips to dark, rural skies.
The Sky This Week: Catch the June Strawberry Super Moon
Enjoy a morning lineup of planets and watch the Moon blot out a star in Scorpius from June 10 to 17.
NASA Student Business Competition Gets Boost by White House Initiative
NASA’s Minority University Education and Research Program (MUREP) Innovation and Tech Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC), a Shark Tank-style competition for students at minority-serving institutions, is officially included in the 2022 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) Scholar Recognition Program.
Sci-fi adventure game ‘Deliver Us Mars’ launches on September 27
Frontier Foundry has revealed the release date for the ambitious sequel to ‘Deliver Us Moon.’
Micrometeoroid dings James Webb mirror segment
A micrometeoroid hit one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments last month, causing “marginally detectable” degradation.
SpaceX rocket hauls Egyptian telecom satellite toward geosynchronous orbit
SpaceX launched an Egyptian communications satellite toward a high-altitude geostationary orbit Wednesday from Cape Canaveral. It was the first commercial launch of a geostationary payload this year, another sign of a market shift toward smaller, lower-orbiting communications satellites.
Ask Astro: What would happen if two supermassive black holes merged?
What would happen if two supermassive black holes merged? Aaron James Oommen Doha, Qatar Supermassive black holes that are millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun are commonly found at the hearts of galaxies. When galaxies merge, their central black holes should also combine. And when they […]
NASA to Discuss New Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Today
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT today – Thursday, June 9 – to discuss a new study team the agency is commissioning to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).
UK Lego Star Wars deal: Save 20% on the UCS Imperial Star Destroyer at John Lewis
The 4784-piece model is part of the Ultimate Collector Series and is over £120 off.
Clouds of stars
The greatest survey yet of the Milky Way Galaxy’s two main satellites, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds has resolved an astonishing 360 million objects – stars, clusters and nebulae.