Space

As rival makers announce increasingly ambitious smart telescopes, ZWO has taken a different approach. Its new Seestar S30 Plus launched today and is available for $474 from Seestar’s website and Amazon, just in time for Christmas. Better still, we’ve been using it for a month and can bring you a first look. Announced a few months after the flagship Seestar S50 Pro and replacing the…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is pushing ahead with its plan to build a moon base for astronauts by 2032, with the agency unveiling up to $10 billion in contracts to launch and deliver cargo to the moon and other efforts on Saturday (Nov. 7). The NASA announcement, revealed here during the space agency’s “Max Power” air show event at Kennedy Space Center, included plans for a…

Sometimes science can seem really counter-intuitive. For example, occasionally in astronomy, you can see more with less light. Case in point: the emergence of a giant planet in observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), when astronomers found a way to block out light from the planet’s parent star. The extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, in question is 51 Eridani b (51 ERI b)…

The northern lights could put on an impressive display this weekend as a colossal coronal hole on the sun fires a stream of high-speed solar wind toward Earth. Minor (G1) geomagnetic storm conditions between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8, with a chance of moderate (G2) conditions on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). If G2 conditions materialize, the…