ESA Tackles Space Junk Issue With ‘Angel Wings’ for Satellites
An artist’s impression of what the space sail looks like as it’s deployed from its jack-in-the-box container. ESA As futuristic as this sounds, real estate in space is booming. Major…
Bird Rescue Group Saves Pink Pigeon, Begs Public to Not Dye Birds
This domestic bird was found in a park in New York City. Phyllis Tseng/Wild Bird Fund The rescue of an eye-catching pink pigeon in New York City’s Madison Square Park…
NASA Traces Webb Space Telescope Glitch to Galactic Cosmic Ray
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez/NASA GSFC, CIL Space will throw you for a loop, even if you’re one of the fanciest and highest tech observatories ever made. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
Scientists Discover 319-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Brain
This artist’s rendering shows what Coccocephalus wildi might have looked like back when it lived over 300 million years ago. Márcio L. Castro A very long time ago, a fish…
Video shows ‘mysterious’ whirlpool spiral flying over Hawaii sky
A strange spiral was caught on video over Hawaii on Jan. 18. The official Twitter account of the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, an optical-infrared telescope operated by the National Astronomical…
Bright Green Comet on 50,000-Year Journey Passes Earth This Week
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki Now’s the time to look for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as it puts on quite a show while passing our planet…
NASA captures photo of ‘bear’s face’ on the surface of Mars
A strange formation that resembles a bear’s face was captured on the surface of the Red Planet by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last month. Two perfectly placed craters make up…
‘Worst-Case Scenario’ Space Junk Collision Barely Avoided
A NASA illustration shows various bits of space junk in orbit. NASA Low-Earth orbit — home to satellites, spacecraft and the International Space Station — is full of debris. And…
Satellite, rocket stage nearly collide in possible ‘worst-case scenario’
Two large pieces of space debris – an old rocket body and a military satellite – nearly collided on Friday. LeoLabs, a private company that works to track satellites and…
See 4 Exoplanets Dance Around Their Star in Wondrous Time-Lapse Video
The faint blobs of light are exoplanets orbiting the star HR 8799. Jason Wang/Northwestern University We’ve been learning about exoplanets, or planets located outside our solar system, at a fast…