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This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. LEDA 22057 is the site of a supernova explosion, named SN 2024PI, which is visible in this image: located just down and to the right of the galactic nucleus. 

Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)

By Julian Dossett published

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

Hubble Space Telescope
An illustration shows the JWST in space next to its observations of some of the earliest galaxies ever seen, the so-called "little red dots."

James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'

By Robert Lea published

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

James Webb Space Telescope
An illustration shows the shutdown Gaia spacecraft telescope drift between Earth and the sun as the Milky Way looks on

Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping

By Robert Lea published

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

Launches & Spacecraft

An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

Hubble Space Telescope
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is seen here attached to the upper stage of its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shortly before its deployment on Jan. 15, 2025.

What's next for the 2 private landers SpaceX just launched toward the moon?

By Mike Wall published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched lunar landers built by Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based company ispace. What's next for the two craft?

Launches & Spacecraft
The upper stage of SpaceX's Starship megarocket rolls out to the launch pad at the company's Starbase site on Jan. 9, 2025 ahead of a planned Jan. 13 test flight.

SpaceX launching Starship Flight 7 on Jan. 16: Watch it live

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX is set to launch the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket on Thursday (Jan. 16) at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT), and you can watch the action live.

Launches & Spacecraft
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the Blue Ghost and Resilience moon landers from Florida's Space Coast on Jan. 15, 2025.

SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon (video, photos)

By Josh Dinner published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched lunar landers for Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company ispace early this morning (Jan. 15).

Launches & Spacecraft
a small model of a red and white house is mounted to a gold foil-covered lunar rover with white wheels

Little house on the (moon) prairie: Artist's 'Moonhouse' set to lift off on lunar lander

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.

Missions
a gold-foiled fixed-leg lander probe stands on a grey semi rocky surface beneath a black sky.

Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander

By Josh Dinner published

NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the surface of the moon.

Launches & Spacecraft
An ispace engineer inspects the “Tenacious” micro rover in the payload bay of the company’s lunar lander, “Resilience.”

What's flying to the moon on ispace's Resilience lunar lander?

By Andrew Jones published

Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday (Jan. 15). Here's what the spacecraft is carrying.

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