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Rogue Stars
by Kate Green Intergalactic stars, or rogue stars , are unique stars that are not bound to any particular galaxy, traveling alone through...
Kate Green
Nov 12, 20244 min read
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What is a 'Rogue Star'?
A rogue star , also known as an intergalactic  or orphan star , is a star that drifts through space without being gravitationally bound...
Kate Green
Nov 12, 20242 min read
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Scientists delving into the Origin of 'Rogue Stars'
by Kate Green November 12, 2024 Scientists are delving into the origin of "rogue stars"—those that wander through space, unbound by...
Kate Green
Nov 12, 20242 min read
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What Are Black Holes?
by Francis Reddy, NASA September 08, 2020 A black hole is an astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not...
Kate Green
Nov 11, 20243 min read
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SpaceX targeting November 18 for next Starship megarocket launch
by Mike Wall November 07, 2024 Â SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly for the sixth time ever less than two weeks from now, if all goes...
Kate Green
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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Cloudspotting on Mars Project
by Zooniverse October 30, 2024 Get ready to explore the skies of Mars: we're thrilled to launch Cloudspotting on Mars: Shapes ! In this...
Kate Green
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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Re-analysis of Milky Way's central supermassive black hole shows elongated structure
by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan October 25, 2024 A research team led by Assistant Professor Makoto Miyoshi of the National...
Kate Green
Oct 28, 20243 min read
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NASA's Next-Gen Spacesuits: Where Fashion Meets Space!!
by Kate Green The collaboration between Axiom Space and Prada has unveiled the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit,...
Kate Green
Oct 28, 20248 min read
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission Astronaut remains Hospitalised
by Kate Green October 25, 2024 NASA recently announced that an Astronaut from the Crew-8 mission, who returned from completing a 235-day...
Kate Green
Oct 28, 20241 min read
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30 Blue Whales of Space Junk...and Counting!!!
by Kate Green October 22, 2024 The breakup of the Intelsat 33e satellite, confirmed on October 20 after an apparent power failure, is a...
Kate Green
Oct 23, 20246 min read
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First results from the Axion Dark-Matter Birefringent Cavity experiment establish a new technique for axion search
by Kate Green October 20, 2024 MIT researchers recently published the first results of an experiment aimed at detecting axion dark matter...
Kate Green
Oct 20, 20244 min read
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Increasing Space Debris - Are there solutions?
by Kate Green October 19, 2024 The Disney-Pixar movie WALL-E Â (2008) offers an interesting, if not entirely realistic, portrayal of...
Kate Green
Oct 19, 20244 min read
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Axions: leading candidate for dark matter or not?
by Kate Green October 19, 2024 A collaborative team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton, and Oxford has recently...
Kate Green
Oct 19, 20249 min read
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NASA / Boeing Starliner Saga Continues
by Kate Green October 19, 2024 NASA's Starliner spacecraft, developed by Boeing, has faced several delays and technical issues, pushing...
Kate Green
Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Why build bigger and bigger telescopes, such as European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)?
by Kate Green October 19, 2024 The drive to build bigger and bigger telescopes , like the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) , stems...
Kate Green
Oct 19, 20243 min read
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Protecting the ELT from Earthquakes
by Kate Green October 19, 2024 The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in the Atacama Desert is equipped with sophisticated anti-seismic...
Kate Green
Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Shielding the Extremely Large Telescope from the Atacama Desert
by Kate Green October 19, 2024 The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in the Atacama Desert, is set to become...
Kate Green
Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Satellites and their negative impact on space exploration
While satellites have greatly benefited space exploration, they also pose several significant challenges and negative impacts,...
Kate Green
Sep 29, 20244 min read
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The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests. So is the theory broken?
by Ian G. McCarthy September 26, 2024 Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven't yet...
Kate Green
Sep 29, 20247 min read
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Observational study supports century-old theory that challenges the Big Bang
by Grant Guggisberg, Kansas State University September 11, 2024 A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an...
Kate Green
Sep 29, 20243 min read
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