Powerful sun storm knocks out radio transmissions | Space Quiz! Where is the largest radio telescope on Earth? | Russian rocket debris creates spectacular fireball
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A powerful solar flare disrupted radio and navigation signals across North America on Aug. 7 and prompted space weather forecasters to issue warnings because of energetic particles hitting Earth.
It was the second X-flare in less than three days — and we should brace for more such activity.
Did you see it? Debris from a recent Russian rocket launch fell from space over parts of Australia this week, lighting up the night sky as spectator looked on.
The crashing rocket generated a "fireball and sonic boom that rattled homes across Victoria," 7 News Australia said via X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 8, referring to the southern state whose capital, Melbourne, is Australia's second-largest city.
Virgin Galactic's Galactic-02 is scheduled to fly a three-person crew, plus the Virgin Galactic astronaut instructor who trained them and two company pilots, on a flight to suborbital space on Aug. 10.
Meet the crew, who they are and what they'll do. Spoiler: They include the first Olympian in space and the first mother-daughter crew!
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The immense power of SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy booster is on glorious display in newly released photos of a recent engine test. That test occurred on Aug. 6, when SpaceX briefly ignited the 33 Raptor engines of a Super Heavy prototype known as Booster 9 at the company's Starbase site in South Texas. Check out the images here!
Chinese authorities announced recently that a handful of "smart" robots have been inspected and approved for use in the upkeep of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) — currently the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world.
The primary role of these robots will be assessing the cables and pulleys that support FAST's feed cabin (the suspended structure that collects radio data collected by the dish). Here's how they work.
Disney plans to tell a Star Wars story from the side of the villains. Finally!
Set around a century before the events of Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte will take place during the end of the High Republic era, when the Jedi were at their most powerful and numerous. Perhaps most intriguing of all is that The Acolyte, which will debut on Disney's streamer in 2024, intends to tell a story from the point of view of the villains, meaning the Sith.
Mars helicopter spies Perseverance rover (stunning photo) | Space Quiz! When was Boeing's 1st Starliner test flight? | See the moon dance with the Seven Sisters
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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance poses for an epic snapshot by its tiny helicopter Ingenuity in this stunning photo. But the rover may have some complaints for Ingenuity, which cut off its head!
The moon will make a close approach to the Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades star cluster before dawn early on Aug. 9. Here's where and when to look for you early-bird stargazers.
If you can't wake up before dawn to see the moon shine with the Pleiades, don't fret. Late tonight (but earlier than dawn, of course) you can still marvel at the quarter moon as the it reaches its midpoint of illumination for its currently lunar cycle. Here's what to look for and when.
After years of delay, Boeing has added a few months more.
In a press conference on Aug. 7, Boeing and NASA pushed back the first crewed test flight of the Starliner spacecraft to no earlier than March 2024, and even that target is not certain. Here's what we know about the long and winding road for Starliner so far.
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The roughly 600-foot-wide (180 meters) asteroid has received the designation 2022 SF289, and is expected to approach Earth to within 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers). That distance is shorter than that between our planet and the moon, which are on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) apart.
SpaceX launched 15 more of its Starlink internet satellites Monday night and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea. It was the second Starlink launch in the last two days.
A lightweight version of the International Space Station's robotic arm will help space sustainability company Astroscale remove decades-old space junk from Earth's orbit in the first mission of its kind.
The trippy storyline of the "Those Old Scientists" episode, directed by "Star Trek" royalty Jonathan Frakes from a fun script by Kathryn Lyn & Bill Wolkoff, includes a time portal incident that sends "Lower Decks" Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler tumbling back in time 120 years, where Captain Pike and his 23rd century Enterprise crew need to return them to their existence before they change the timeline.
