An incredibly detailed image of the Moon was composed by an Indian teen, who captured 55,000 images—racking up over 186 gigabytes on his laptop in the process—for a pastiche of celestial proportions. Sixteen-year-old Prathamesh Jaju from Pune, Maharashtra, shared his HDR (high-dynamic range) image of a waning crescent moon on Instagram. He admitted that amassing…
16-Year-Old Creates Incredible Image of the Moon Using 50,000+ Photos: ‘It Almost Killed My Laptop’
NASA Researcher Sentenced For Concealing China Ties
A senior NASA scientist has been sentenced to 30 days in prison, months after he pleaded guilty to lying about his ties to a program backed by the Chinese regime designed to harvest talents from the West and transfer intellectual property to China. Meyya Meyyappan, 66, of Pacifica, California, was sentenced on Wednesday for making…
Computer Trouble Hits Hubble Space Telescope, Science Halted
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The Hubble Space Telescope has been hit with computer trouble, with all astronomical viewing halted, NASA said Wednesday. The orbiting observatory has been idle since Sunday when a 1980s-era computer that controls the science instruments shut down, possibly because of a bad memory board. Flight controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…
New Telescope Detects Hundreds of Mysterious Radio Signals, Sources Still Unknown
An astronomical phenomenon called fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been getting a lot of attention, as a new telescope is able to detect them far more often than was previously possible. These fast pulses of radio signals last only one to a few milliseconds, but on average they can release as much energy as our…
Winning Auction Bid to Fly in Space With Jeff Bezos: $28 Million
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—An auction for a ride into space next month alongside Jeff Bezos and his brother ended with a winning $28 million bid Saturday. The Amazon founder’s rocket company, Blue Origin, did not disclose the winner’s name following the live online auction. The identity will be revealed in a couple weeks—closer to the brief…
Exceptional Cosmic Explosion Challenges Established Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Scientists have obtained the best view so far of the most powerful type of cosmic explosion, which happened this time in our cosmological “backyard.” Using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), the research team recorded the most energetic radiation and longest gamma-ray afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed. The results challenged the established…
New NASA Leader Doesn’t Think UFO Sightings Are Optical Illusions
NASA’s new administrator raised doubts on the idea that the mysterious flying objects caught on camera by U.S. Navy pilots were just optical illusions. Bill Nelson, NASA’s recently appointed leader, is a former Florida senator and a spaceflight veteran. In an interview with CNN, he said that even to the higher authorities of the space…
Bezos Plans To Go to Space Aboard Blue Origin Flight in July
Jeff Bezos will be aboard for Blue Origin’s first human space flight next month. In an Instagram post early Monday, Bezos said he, his brother, and the winner of an ongoing auction, will be aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft during its scheduled launch on July 20. July 20 is the anniversary of the Apollo…
US Intel Report on UFOs: No Evidence of Aliens, But. …
WASHINGTON—Whatever or whoever they are, they’re still out there. U.S. intelligence is after them, but its upcoming report won’t deliver any full or final truth about UFOs. The tantalizing prospect of top government intel finally weighing in—after decades of conspiracy theories, TV shows, movies and winking jokes by presidents—will instead yield a more mundane reality…
NASA Plans 2 New Missions to Venus, Its First in Decades
LOS ANGELES—NASA announced plans on Wednesday to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030—its first in decades—to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earth’s so-called sister planet and better understand why the two emerged so differently. The U.S. space agency said it was awarding about $500 million each to develop…
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