Category Space and Ufo

An artist’s impression of the energy system on the Moon. (Image courtesy of NASA) NASA is accelerating its plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. The agency has been working for years to prepare a 40-kilowatt fission system…

The MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS), a survey of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field carried out by the James Webb Space Telescope, has discovered more than 2,500 distant structures. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA and CSA, G. Ostlin, P.G. Perez-González, J.…

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible through telescopes during its close conjunction with Venus on August 12. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) As the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak, two bright planets appear in the night sky. Venus and Jupiter,…

A simulation of early star formation shows a 3D visualization of gas clouds as yellow and red patches, including one that stands out as being ready to collapse into a giant star eight times the mass of our Sun. (Image…

(Image credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)) NASA has released the most detailed images to date of Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar traveler currently crossing our solar system. Images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have…

Radio wave image of the warped jet emanating from the supermassive black hole system OJ 287. (Image credit: Dr Eftalia Traianou, Heidelberg University, IWR) The stream of particles emanating from the massive black hole has been found to be highly…

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower will be obscured by the bright light of the moon in 2025. (Photo by Ruhey via Getty Images) The Perseids, one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year in the northern…

The Curiosity rover has found a coral-like object on the surface of Mars. (Photo courtesy of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory) NASA’s Curiosity rover has beamed back stunning images of what looks like a piece of coral on the Red Planet.…

A sundog and a 22-degree halo can be seen in the sky above Winnipeg, Canada. The phenomenon is caused by sunlight interacting with aligned ice crystals. A new study suggests similar effects could be seen on distant exoplanets, where strong…

Chrysalis could be home to several generations before it reaches Alpha Centauri, where it could transport humans to the surface of Proxima Centauri b. (Photo: Giacomo Infelise, Veronica Magli, Guido Sbroggio, Nevenka Martinello and Federica Chiara Serpe) Engineers have created…

This image was captured just after the first stage separated during the Crew-11 mission to the ISS. On the left, the Falcon 9 rocket that carried the crew is seen falling back to Earth. On the right, the second stage…