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      The observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) provides a different view of the famous pillars, revealing young stars that have not yet cast off their dusty “cloaks.” This is not an ethereal landscape of time-forgotten tombs. Nor are these soot-tinged fingers reaching out. These pillars, flush with gas and dust, enshroud stars that are […]

Space in Africa, in collaboration with the African Union Commission and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Côte d’Ivoire, is organising the second edition of the NewSpace Africa Conference, its second high-level conference gathering industry leaders, academia, national space agencies and other critical stakeholders to share insights and ideas for the growth and

In a news release by CNN, scientists have named two unprecedented minerals uncovered on earth in a 15.2-metric-ton meteorite found in a 70-gram piece of meteorite unearthed in Somalia in 2020. According to the University of Alberta, it is the ninth-largest meteorite to be discovered. The curator of the university’s meteorite collection, Chris Hurd, obtained

    The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks. Newborn stars “feed” at a furious rate and grow through surprisingly frequent feeding frenzies, a recent analysis of data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows. Outbursts from stellar babies at the earliest stage of development – when

    Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors. Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close. Located about 250 million light-years from Earth in the center of another galaxy, it was

On the 9th of January, 2023, the Republic of Djibouti signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited and Touchroad International Holdings Group to develop an international commercial spaceport in the northern Obock Region of Djibouti. This serves as a preliminary agreement between the parties to build a spaceport which is

2022 WJ1 was a tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth. But astronomers saw it coming, and NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system calculated where it would hit. In the early hours of Saturday, Nov. 19, the skies over southern Ontario, Canada, lit up as a tiny asteroid harmlessly streaked across the sky high

On Saturday, 17th December, 2022, Galaxy Aerospace Ghana organized a Space Civilization Carnival; Gravity 1.0 to create the awareness about our Vision and desire in taking Ghana to Space by 2030 the first of its kind in Ghana. Students from the Galaxy Tech. Foundation and our team participated in the carnival that was held at

The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the 2023 launch date. NASA announced Friday the agency decided its Psyche mission will go forward, targeting a launch period opening on Oct. 10, 2023. Earlier this year, Psyche missed its planned 2022 launch period as a result of mission

The agency’s Perseverance rover will establish the first sample depot on Mars. The next step in the unprecedented campaign to return scientifically selected samples from Mars was made on Oct. 19 with a formal agreement between NASA and its partner ESA (European Space Agency). The two agencies will proceed with the creation of a sample