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Topic: Space (page 3)

Artist's impression of Earth ring system (Oliver Hull)

Earth may have once had ring like Saturn

Rae Hodge
Planet Earth and the Moon (Getty Images/forplayday)

Earth gets temporary second moon

Matthew Rozsa
This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole - and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Black hole "starving" galaxy to death

Matthew Rozsa
The black hole in this record-breaking quasar is growing in mass by the equivalent of one Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole to date. (European Southern Observatory)

Compact galaxies are masters of disguise

Fabio Pacucci - The Conversation
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule sits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Polaris Dawn Mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 28, 2024. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Rocket failure grounds SpaceX

Griffin Eckstein
Colonization of distant planet (Getty Images/gremlin)

Astronomers warn against colonialism

Mary-Jane Rubenstein - The Conversation
Martian landscape with lakes, water (Getty Images/gremlin)

Water on Mars found buried deep

Matthew Rozsa
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore (L) and Pilot Suni Williams walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on June 05, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Astronauts may not come home till 2025

Troy Farah
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault, seed vault. Longyearbyen, the capital of Svalbard on the island of Spitsbergen in the Spitsbergen archipelago. Arctic, Europe, Scandinavia, Norway, Svalbard. (Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists want a seed vault on the Moon

Rae Hodge
This artist's conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Supermassive black holes slowing growth

Fan Zou, W. Niel Brandt
In this handout photo provided by NASA, (L-R) ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthais Maurer, NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX Shannon recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico on May 6, 2022 off the coast of Tampa, Florida. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

Even short space trips alter human body

Susan Bailey - The Conversation
Exoplanet HD 189733b (NASA/ESO/M. Kornmesser)

A stinky exoplanet rains molten glass

Matthew Rozsa
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex in Florida on September 5, 1977. (NASA)

Behind Voyager 1's near-death experience

Matthew Rozsa
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (KSC/NASA/Francisco Martin)

NASA must analyze Starliner failures

Rae Hodge
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after sunset above the Pacific Ocean after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024, as seen from San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

SpaceX pulls off a double-header

Rae Hodge
In late 2019, the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before and was classified as having an active galactic nucleus, powered by a massive black hole in the galaxy’s core. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Scientists witness a black hole awaken

Matthew Rozsa
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Big Bang, conceptual image (Getty Images/ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did alien life form after the Big Bang?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Scientist planting seedlings on a Mars base (Getty Images/EvgeniyShkolenko)

Agriculture trick for Mars matters here

Ayurella Horn-Muller - Grist
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on June 05, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Boeing Starliner averts disaster

Rae Hodge
Saturn's moon Enceladus (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Scientists recreate a Saturn moon in lab

Matthew Rozsa
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid in the world's first full-scale planetary defense test mission on Wednesday, Nov. 24, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Designing effective asteroid swatters

Theo Nicitopoulos - Undark
Volcanic exoplanet, illustration (NASA, ESA, CSA, Dani Player)

Exoplanet exploding with molten lava

Matthew Rozsa
The view from Kowloon Peak shows apartment buildings and office blocks lights at night on November 3, 2016 in Hong Kong. (Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

Auroras may continue into this week

Ashlie D. Stevens
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Massive solar storm could cause outages

Rae Hodge
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