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Topic: Space (page 6)

The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

The place where satellites go to die

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. (Mark Garlick)

Astronomers see post-planetary collision

Matthew Rozsa
In this handout image provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour orbit Earth during Endeavour's final sortie on May 23, 2011 in Space. (Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images)

NASA's plan to deorbit the ISS explained

Rae Hodge
The researchers think that infrared light particles (photons) from the poles of the pulsar are boosted to gamma-ray energies (blue) by fast electrons. (Science Communication Lab for DESY)

Vera pulsar breaks a new energy record

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
In this handout provided by NASA, Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

New record for longest US spaceflight

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

AI could help us find life on Mars

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK)

Black holes eat faster than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Chandrayaan-3 on the moon (Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO))

Chandrayaan-3 analyzes sulfur on Moon

Jeffrey Gillis-Davis - The Conversation
American astronaut Bruce McCandless II photographed from the Space Shuttle Challenger during the first untethered EVA, made possible by his nitrogen jet propelled backpack (Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU), 7th February 1984. (NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

How space can harm the human body

Rachael Seidler - The Conversation
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., United States on September 15, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

NASA: No evidence UFOs are aliens, sorry

Chris Impey - The Conversation
An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. A quasar is a galactic object with a supermassive black hole in the center. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld/CC BY 4.0)

Black holes may grow up in neighborhoods

Jaclyn Champagne - The Conversation
UFOs flying in the sky, illustration (Getty Images/KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

All about UFOs and alien intelligence

Rae Hodge
Earth as viewed from Mars surface, concept (Getty Images/Nzoka John)

Should we keep outer space "wild?"

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Space junk around Earth (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Space junk is only going to increase

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Theoretical Physicist Avi Loeb speaks during the New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation)

Proof of aliens on the deep sea floor?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

Singing the ancient hymn of the Big Bang

Rae Hodge
This artist’s impression shows the pulsar PSR J1023+0038 stealing gas from its companion star. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Dead star burps cosmic cannonballs

Elizabeth Hlavinka
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard as a live telecast is aired near a clock tower in Srinagar on August 23, 2023, showing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft minutes before its successful lunar landing on the south pole of the Moon. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why India's moon lander matters

Mariel Borowitz - The Conversation
Planet Neptune (Getty Images/buradaki/NASA)

Neptune's clouds are disappearing

Matthew Rozsa
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ cites Musk tweets, sues SpaceX

Rae Hodge
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard as a live telecast is aired near a clock tower in Srinagar on August 23, 2023, showing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft minutes before its successful lunar landing on the south pole of the Moon. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images)

India is fourth nation to land on Moon

Matthew Rozsa
Psyche asteroid in space (Getty Images/24K-Production/NASA)

What NASA’s Psyche mission may reveal

Jim Bell - The Conversation
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