Space

A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active galactic nuclei (AGN)—supermassive black holes that are rapidly increasing in size—are rarer than many astronomers had assumed previously.

Soft landing achieved.

The warning comes as the U.S. space economy is predicted to reach $1 trillion by 2030.

The Indian space agency is all set to land its probe, which was made at a fraction of the budget of recent Hollywood blockbusters, on the surface of the Moon, a task that has historically had a low success rate.

Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended in failure after crashing into the moon, space agency Roscosmos has announced.

Russia’s first moon mission in decades fails after spacecraft collides with surface: The incident happened after communication with the spacecraft was interrupted, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/luna-25-spacecraft-moon-collision-intl/index.html
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Lunar Trailblazer joins a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.

Scisat tracks changes in the atmosphere that could 'delay the ozone recovery in a warming world.'

This could explain how supermassive black holes grew to have masses billions of times that of the sun so quickly in the early universe.

We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: it has a tail of its own.

The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's how to terraform our lunar neighbor.

Microgravity research and technology development on the ISS will continue "full throttle" through the end of 2030, the agency says.

NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy.

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species.

Using nuclear fusion, Pulsar's rocket could dramatically increase travel speeds, aiming for tests by 2025 and fusion temperatures by 2027.

Four astronauts from four countries are on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Autonomous Restructuring of Asteroids into Rotating Space Stations: Asteroid restructuring uses robotics, self replication, and mechanical automatons to autonomously restructure an asteroid into a large rotating space station.
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Experts have ideas about what the cosmic question mark object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope could be.

Astronomers have found planets that are twice as wide as Jupiter and more than 10 times as heavy, but there's a limit to how big planets can get.

White holes are mathematically possible, according to general relativity. But does that mean they're actually out there?

Get ready stargazers: The Perseid meteor shower and a super blue moon are highly anticipated sights this August.

Asteroids, comets and meteorites are increasingly essential to scientists' understanding of our solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has been used to observe Earendel, the most distant star ever detected.

The largest storm in the solar system, a 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone called the Great Red Spot, has decorated Jupiter's surface for hundreds of years.

'We now have for the first time vestiges of times that could have been conducive to the origin of life.'