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Not to worry! This is completely normal, and the "cannibal" could trigger beautiful northern lights.

Well-designed games are surprisingly powerful tolls for learning about real world physics. But what of a puzzle game set in the quantum world?

When the James Webb Space Telescope aims at exoplanet atmospheres, it’ll use spectroscopy to identify chemical elements. One of the things it’s looking for is methane, a chemical compound that can indicate the presen...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope just made a remarkable discovery, and they gave it quite a unique name.

Supermassive black holes play a central role to weaken star production in their galaxies. The post Supermassive Black Holes Shut Down Star Formation appeared first on Universe Today.

Jack Lousma does not remember having M&M's while he was in space. As a NASA astronaut, Lousma commanded the third space shuttle mission 40 years ago, which flew the first candy-coated chocolates.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully carried out its fourth crewed spaceflight Thursday, a ten-minute ride beyond the planet's atmosphere and back again.

Cultured meat could be a game changer for the environment, food security, human health and animal welfare. But some challenges prevent it from reaching its full potential. Now ESA is supporting researchers to explore the...

Often, a spiderweb conjures the idea of captured prey soon to be consumed by a waiting predator. In the case of the "Spiderweb" protocluster, however, objects that lie within a giant cosmic web are feasting and growing, ...

Today, the European Commission, ESA, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) celebrated the official launc...

An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth.

Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. New research is examining the radiation and winds emanating from black hole activity and shows how they may exert effects on nearby pla...

Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on its first flight of the year March 31, carrying six people on a brief trip to space and back. The post Blue Origin flies six on first New Shepard suborbital flig...

After much speculation and concern the past month whether Russia would allow a US astronaut to ride back to Earth in a Soyuz spacecraft, Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan on March 30. Mostly l...

Prof. Liu Hongtao, Ph.D. Feng Haicheng and their cooperators from Yunnan observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the virial factor in estimating the virial masses of supermassive black holes in active g...

The sun emitted a significant solar flare on March 30, 2022, peaking at 1:35 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event.

The Philippines is set to become the first country in Southeast Asia to access SpaceX's Starlink broadband services, its government announced March 31. The post Starlink eyes Southeast Asia foothold with the Philippines ...

Blue Origin will launch 6 passengers on the NS-20 space tourism mission on March 31, 2022. Here are our live updates of the launch.

NASA and Axiom Space will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

Slingshot Aerospace won a $25.2 million Space Force contract to develop a virtual replica of the space environment The post Slingshot wins $25 million Space Force contract to develop digital twin of the space environment...

China deorbited the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft Thursday after testing on-orbit docking, refueling and module transposition for the Chinese space station. The post Chinese spacecraft reenters atmosphere ahead of new spac...

Satellite operator SES announced March 31 it is working with Canadian startup NorthStar Earth & Space on developing space situational awareness (SSA) data products to support its fleet of communications satellites. The p...