A Rutgers astronomer is helping to investigate a mysterious cosmic phenomenon that has left astronomers searching for answers. At the heart of this mystery is an unusually powerful explosion in space that lasted longer than anything ever seen. NASA has announced that researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed GRB 250702B, a long … Read more
It’s amazing how much a single movie can affect the cultural content of an entire topic – even a topic as serious as planetary security. The popular media always uses the 1998 movie Armageddon as a reference when talking about how we can destroy a civilization-ending asteroid. That’s despite the film’s glaring scientific flaws, not … Read more
by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2026 NASA used the James Webb Space Telescope to make new observations of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which confirms that it will pass safely by the Earth and the Moon in 2032. The asteroid had already been ruled out as a major threat to the Earth, … Read more
The UN officer was trained for this moment. He was training and practicing on the tables in his offices in Vienna, sitting in a gray and unassuming 1970s concrete building near the Danube River. Aarti Holla-Maini, a British lawyer with a background in the satellite business, needed to at least play the situation step by … Read more
March 30 (Reuters) – NASA’s Artemis program is a U.S. effort to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era and establish a permanent human presence there, a goal Washington has framed as a way to maintain space leadership amid growing competition from China. Here are the highlights of the … Read more
Finding life beyond our planetary system is more than measuring exoplanet sizes, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds may not host life as we know it. Although exoplanets can be shown directly by blocking the light of their star, these images are not spectacular and do not have the resolution to provide sufficient information about their habitation. … Read more
Get information on thousands of stocks from a global community of over 7 million investors at Simply Wall St. Rocket Lab (NasdaqCM:RKLB) has completed its first dedicated launch for the European Space Agency, taking the Celeste demonstration satellite into orbit. The mission used the Electron rocket and marked ESA’s first autonomous flight with Rocket Lab. … Read more
A stunning new astrophotograph of Groups of Antennae reveals the mysterious cosmic collision unfolding in deep space, providing a rare and detailed view of how galaxies evolve through violent interactions. Located about 45 million light-years away, this unique pair, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039it is caught in a magnetic field that is reorganizing both structures … Read more
For decades, nuclear activity has been the center of proposals for aeronautical engineering and government studies, always promising, never leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028. NASA has announced that it will launch the Space Reactor-1 Freedom, described by the agency as the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft, on its way to Mars before the end … Read more
For decades, nuclear activity has been the center of proposals for aeronautical engineering and government studies, always promising, never leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028. NASA has announced that it will launch the Space Reactor-1 Freedom, described by the agency as the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft, on its way to Mars before the end … Read more