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Archive for January 25th, 2024

‘We proved that you can land wherever you want.’ Japan’s SLIM moon probe nailed precise lunar landing, JAXA says

January 25th, 2024 by

Japan’s SLIM spacecraft made a strange but precise lunar landing, touching the moon with the tip of its nose as it landed incredibly close its target location.

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‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ season 3 trailer signals the end of a spirited series

January 25th, 2024 by

It’s the farewell season for “Star Wars: The Bad Batch,” but it’s going out with a serious bang as this new trailer from Disney Plus shows.

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Hubble spots water around tiny hot and steamy exoplanet in ‘exciting discovery’

January 25th, 2024 by

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted water in the atmosphere of a tiny planet with temperatures around that of Venus, meaning it’s a hot and steamy world.

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Chinese company launches 5 remote-sensing satellites to orbit (video)

January 25th, 2024 by

China’s commercial space activities continue to grow, with a solid rocket putting five privately built satellites into orbit on Jan. 22.

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On China’s space station, scientists will study some of Earth’s earliest organisms

January 25th, 2024 by

A Chinese spacecraft has delivered an experiment to the nation’s space station that will test whether life can survive a cosmic environment.

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The 1st full moon of 2024 rises tonight with January’s Full Wolf Moon

January 25th, 2024 by

January’s Full Wolf Moon rises on Thursday (Jan. 25), marking the first full moon of 2024 and shining between the claws of Cancer, the Crab.

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What the search for alien ‘megastructures’ taught us about seeking life beyond Earth

January 25th, 2024 by

A machine learning-based search for TESS data anomalies could lead us to proof of alien life.

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The universe might be younger than we think, galaxies’ motion suggests

January 25th, 2024 by

The motions of satellites in galaxy groups tell us that such groupings, and therefore possibly the universe, are younger than what standard cosmology tells us.

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