Space

Three Chinese astronauts won’t be “stranded” in orbit for much longer. A Long March 2F/G rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China tonight (Nov. 24) at 11:11 p.m. EST (0411 GMT and 12:11 p.m. on Nov. 25 Beijing time). The rocket sent the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft toward China’s Tiangong space station in low Earth orbit, on a dramatic and…

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A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it’s shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies. Recently, an international team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover a bright, young galaxy in the early universe. Although it’s not the earliest galaxy ever found, it is among the first generation of large galaxies to appear after the Big…

The headline says it all: The list of our moon’s craters just got a little longer. On Nov. 13, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team — which operates visual equipment on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) — announced the discovery of a never-before-seen dent in Earth’s natural satellite. It appears to be about 72 feet (22 meters) in diameter, probably…