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On Saturday (Jan. 28) the moon will move in front of Uranus obstructing the view of the distant ice giant planet and causing it to disappear from the night sky in an arrangement that astronomers call a lunar occultation. The…
Prime Video’s exceptional space opera show “The Expanse” finished its sixth and final season back in January 2022 on Amazon Prime Video, and we deeply miss the intrepid crew of the Rocinante and their harrowing exploits throughout the solar system.…
A private U.S. moon lander just cleared a big hurdle on the path toward its debut spaceflight this year. The Peregrine lunar lander, built by Astrobotic, finished the last of its space qualification tests this month, the Pittsburgh-based company announced…
Low Earth orbit was the site of a near-miss today (Jan. 27) that had the potential to create thousands of pieces of hazardous space debris. Satellite monitoring and collision detection firm LeoLabs spotted a near-miss between two defunct Soviet space…
Brace yourselves! “Dead Space” is back and it’s still not for the faint of heart! Not since the early days of survival horror video game classics in the vein of “Doom,” “Resident Evil,” and “Silent Hill” had there been a…
Asteroid 2023 BU zipped past Earth Thursday night (Jan. 26) to the delight of amateur astronomers worldwide. For skywatchers without access to a telescope or those who had their view hampered by bad weather, luckily the Italy-based Virtual Telescope Project…
This futuristic engine could save lots of propellant on interplanetary journeys, perhaps allowing NASA to explore the solar system more efficiently. NASA completed a round of testing last year with the “rotating detonation rocket engine,” which generates thrust using fuel-saving…
Astronomers have detected the first gamma-ray eclipses from a “spider” star system, in which a superdense rapidly rotating neutron star called a pulsar is feeding on a stellar companion. These never-seen before gamma-ray eclipses are caused by the low-mass companion…
Europe’s mission to explore three icy moons of Jupiter is all set to begin its voyage to the outer solar system. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, also known as JUICE, will study Europa, Ganymede and Callisto to provide insights…
China last year performed 64 orbital rocket launches and finished building its own space station, but the country is planning an even busier year for 2023. China’s main space contractor and Long March rocket maker, CASC, announced (opens in new…
