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Japan Delays Launch of New Space Station Cargo Ship Again

Friday, September 14th 2018 05:32 PM

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unexpectedly delayed a vital cargo launch to the International Space Station just an hour before the rocket was scheduled to lift off. The agency has not yet provided a new launch date or an explanation for the delay. The mission had already been postponed from a liftoff originally scheduled for Sept. 10 (Sept. 11 local time) by a typho...

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NASA's Prolific Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Goes Back to Sleep

Saturday, August 25th 2018 12:52 PM

The most accomplished planet-hunting instrument of all time has shut its eagle-sharp eyes once again. NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered about 70 percent of all known alien worlds to date, is running very low on fuel. In early July, Kepler intentionally went into a hibernation-like state to ensure that the spacecraft would have enough propellant left to orient itself toward...

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Secrets Of The Strange Stars That Circle Our Supermassive Black Hole

Friday, July 27th 2018 09:14 AM

High winds are the norm at the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers have now clocked suns orbiting the galactic core at a staggering 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) per second. At this rate, Earth would complete its orbit around the sun in a mere three days. What lurks at the galaxy’s core that can accelerate stars to such speeds?Astronomers have considered various possibilities. Does the...

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On This Day in Space! Sept. 3, 2006: SMART-1 Spacecraft Crashes Into the Moon

Monday, September 3rd 2018 01:53 PM

  SMART-1 launched in 2003 and was the first European spacecraft to go to the moon. It was also the first mission of a program called Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology, which was a series of low-cost spacecraft that the European Space Agency launched to test new spaceflight technologies. SMART-1's primary objective was to test something called Solar Electric Primary Propulsi...

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The Milky Way Galaxy Once Died… But Then Came Back to Life

Tuesday, August 28th 2018 05:07 PM

Our home galaxy has turned out to have experienced a more dramatic history than originally thought. The Milky Way galaxy died once before and we are now in what is considered its second life. Calculations by Masafumi Noguchi, of Tohoku University in Japan, published in the July 26, 2018 edition of Nature, reveal previously unknown details about the Milky Way. It appears that stars formed in two di...

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Using binoculars

Friday, July 27th 2018 09:15 AM

Ask someone what equipment they need to start exploring the night sky and, 99 times out of 100, they'll fire back "telescope" as the answer. Although a telescope may seem the logical choice, there's an alternative that in many respects works better. Binoculars are highly versatile instruments that can reveal craters on the Moon, moons orbiting Jupiter, Milky Way starfields, and even other gala...

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