BySpace Telescope Science InstituteAugust 12, 2022 This graphic illustrates how the southern region of the rapidly evolving, bright, red supergiant star Betelgeuse may have suddenly become fainter f… [+8655 chars]
Enlarge/ India's Small Satellite Launch Vehicle takes flight on Sunday. 48 with 37 posters participating Welcome to Edition 5.06 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is Northrop Grumman's d… [+5234 chars]
Were in the third year of the Suns 11-year solar cycle, and satellites in low Earth orbit are already experiencing the deleterious effects. Scientists are now warning that the worst is yet to come, a… [+3932 chars]
The subjective well-being of visitors to a three-minute online art or culture exhibition was found to be significantly improved. Effects are comparable to those of going to actual art galleries or e… [+2897 chars]
The next day, on Saturday, Aug. 13, an asteroid double the size of 2015 FF is expected to make another close approach to Earth. As per JPL, this one, called 2022 OT1, is about 110 feet long, which is… [+279 chars]
On August 12, 1977, NASA entered a new era with the launch of the Enterprise, a space shuttle prototype that never actually reached space. But despite falling short of even cruising altitude in a com… [+10265 chars]
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is an active remote sensing system often accompanied by various noises. To find the most suitable denoising method for LiDAR signals, a study published in Sensors … [+5305 chars]
A couple of years ago, NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft discovered something strange and puzzling. Exploring the asteroid Bennu, it found that the space rock would mysteriously eject pebble-sized rocks in … [+2404 chars]
Topology and entanglement are two powerful principles for characterizing the structure of complex quantum states. In a new paper in the journal Physical Review X, researchers from the University of P… [+3688 chars]
A recent fireball, spotted in the skies over Madrid, has turned out to be a major blast from the past. On July 31, an icy body believed to be 10 cm in size ended up as a fireball 77 kilometres over t… [+2014 chars]
Image shows stringlike material found on Mars. The image of a "bundle of string" captured by Perseverance rover last month in Mars' crimson sand is likely a Dacron netting, American Space Agency NAS… [+1586 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has published a video that puts into perspective just how far away the latest target of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Cartwheel Galaxy, is. On August 2,… [+2910 chars]
