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More details: Visit website A much-delayed but ultimately successful launch by SpaceX of 24 Project Kuiper satellites on August 11th takes the total of Amazon craft launched to 102. This was the fourth launch, but there's a long way to go. This mission (KF-02) saw the satellites separated from the rocket at an altitude of 289 miles (465 kilometers) above Earth. In the coming months, they will gradually raise themselves to their assigned altitude of 392 miles (630 km). This successful launch came at the end of four previously scrubbed attempts because of bad weather. This initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,200 spacecraft, which began deploying in April 2025 when Kuiper sent its first 27 satellites into space. That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy the initial constellation. Amazon is investing $140 million into a new processing centre at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and says the fac...

More details: Visit website ⁘Picture swarms of bees or midges,⁘ Aronson said. ⁘They move, that creates sound, and the sound keeps them cohesive, many individuals acting as one.⁘ Since the miniature, sound-broadcasting swarms of micromachines are self-organizing, they can navigate tight spaces and even re-form themselves if deformed. The swarms' collective -- or emergent -- intelligence could one day be harnessed to carry out tasks like cleaning up pollution in contaminated environments, Aronson explained. ⁘This represents a significant leap toward creating smarter, more resilient and, ultimately, more useful microrobots with minimal complexity that could tackle some of our world's toughest problems,⁘ he said. ⁘The insights from this research are crucial for designing the next generation of microrobots, capable of performing complex tasks and responding to external cues in challenging environments.⁘ For the study, the team...

Reference: Found here Is it an alien spaceship or an ancient comet? That's the question puzzling UFO enthusiasts, NASA, and the European Space Agency since an interstellar visitor entered our solar system last month. It seems everyone has been talking about the unidentified object, and there's been a lot of speculation about its origin. It's only the third known interstellar visitor to pass through our solar system, after 'Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019), published reports say. The Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field Camera 3 shed some light on the object's composition when it caught a clear view of what experts say is likely a comet on July 21 when the object was 277 million miles or 445 million kilometers from Earth, CNN reported. The image appears to be "a teardrop-shaped dust cocoon" that was spotted streaking from the comet's "icy nucleus," the report said. A comet's ...

Read more: Visit website Sky-watchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction on Tuesday, Aug. 12, will have glimpsed the first act of the six-planet "planet parade" that's building in the eastern sky before sunrise. Best seen about an hour before sunrise, bright planets Venus and Jupiter — now beginning to draw away from each other — will dominate in the east while Saturn brightens in the south. Rising below Venus and Jupiter is Mercury, which will get higher each morning this week. Uranus and Neptune will also be in the sky, though neither is visible to the naked eye. Mercury will be visible just above the eastern horizon about 45 minutes before sunrise. It's not easy to see because it appears very low, below 10 degrees altitude, according to NASA . It will be farthest from the sun (and, therefore, highest in the sky), on Aug. 19 and remain visible until around Aug. 26.

Read more: Visit website An interstellar object observed by the Hubble Space Telescope has been confirmed as the fastest ever to travel from beyond our solar system. 3I/ATLAS was discovered by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 1 July, and is just the third interstellar object ever recorded to enter our solar system , after 'Oumuamua in 2017 and comet Borisov in 2019. Observations showed that it was a coma (a cloud of gas and dust) rather than a giant Earth-destroying asteroid , which is always good. But for the comet to be travelling at 130,000mph means it's simply too fast to be gravitationally bound by the Sun, and that's why it's interstellar. ⁘No one knows where the comet came from,⁘ says David Jewitt, the science team leader for the Hubble observations. ⁘It's like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second. You can't project that back with any accuracy ...

Read more: Visit website The Discovery Space Projector isn't bad value for around $30. It's a nice-looking projector for kids, but its build quality could be better ⁘ and its star projector function leaves a lot to be desired. Why you can trust Space.com Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test and review products. Like the Smithsonian, this unit is technically two projectors in one. One projects images from a series of disks, while the other fills your ceiling with so-called stars. Also like the Smithsonian, the stars here are blue, blurry and unrealistic. But, you cannot project both stars and disks together: There's a separate projector at each end of the unit, so you need to rotate it to see one or the other. It's a neat design, but honestly, being able to see the stars and projected celestial bodies togethe...

Reference: Found here A team of astronomers has found evidence of a candidate gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a Sun-like star in the closest stellar system to our own. Initial observations hinting at the planet's existence were made in August 2024 using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Alpha Centauri system is located just 4 light-years from Earth. The findings, detailed in two papers accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters , could represent a major milestone. As Charles Beichman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory noted in a JWST news release , ⁘With this system being so close to us, any exoplanets found would offer our best opportunity to collect data on planetary systems other than our own.⁘ The Alpha Centauri system is a fascinating trio of stars. It consists of Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, two Sun-like stars that form a binary pair, and the more distant an...