Daily News update on – Science

Space.com

Twelve of the 24 currently operable Galileo satellites were launched on Ariane 5 rockets, which are able to loft four of the hefty spacecraft to orbit at a time — a significant increase over the constellation’s previous cadence of two-per-launch aboard …

Space.com

Sunspots on the face of the sun. In June 2023, the sun’s face has broken out with the highest number of sunspots in more than two decades. (Image …

Space.com

This isn’t the first time that humanity has detected gravitational waves. So why is this discovery so important? Comments (0). bright points of light spread out throughout space emit a grid-like pattern. (Image credit: Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav …

Space.com

The first official photo of Saturn from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) does not disappoint. On Friday (June 30), NASA released a stunning JWST image that shows the ringed planet in a whole new light. The photo, captured on June 25 by the …

Space.com

The Royal Observatory of Greenwich has released a shortlist of the top submissions, and the pictures are incredible. Comments (0). A white-bricked trench lays recessed in the pale green grass of a World War. “Celestial Equator Above First World War …

Space.com

Astronomers have discovered high amounts of the amino acid tryptophan in interstellar material throughout a nearby star-birthing region of space. Tryptophan is one of 20 amino acids responsible for forming key proteins essential for life on Earth.

CNN

A new study finds the ancient Otodus megalodon shark (here in an illustration) was partially warm-blooded. This characteristic may have played a role in the dangerous apex predator’s extinction. Alex Boersma …

CNN

An artist’s illustration shows a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. A quasar is exceptionally bright because it releases tons of energy that’s generated as a supermassive black hole gobbles up gas, dust and celestial objects.

Maui Now

After twelve years of planning, the European Space Agency on July 1 launched its Euclid satellite from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with the goal of answering those and many other questions, and it will get a big — and colorful — helping hand from three …

Space.com

Thankfully, astronomer Gianluca Masi and the Virtual Telescope Project in Rome, Italy will be livestreaming the Full Buck Moon in the night sky tonight for skywatchers unable to witness the first supermoon of 2023 in person. The livestream begins at 5 p.m. …