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UPDATED Jan. 10, 2023: Juno returned to nominal operations Dec. 29, 2022, after going into safe mode on Dec. 17 in response to the onboard computer memory anomaly that occurred during its Dec. 14 close pass of Jupiter. As expected, the majority of the science data collected during the...
WASHINGTON — The United States and Japan signed an agreement Jan. 13 to enable further cooperation between the two countries in space exploration, but without announcing any new initiatives. During a brief ceremony at NASA Headquarters attended by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...