Month: March 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope will zero in on a portion of the famous Orion Nebula, the closest region of mass star-formation to Earth, to learn more about how massive young stars shape their environments. The Orion Nebula, some 1,350 light-years away from Earth, is known as a stellar nursery. Dense clouds of gas and dust in this region collapse into stellar embryos that gradually grow bigger until the pressure and heat in their cores increases enough to trigger nuclear fusion.  Because of the amount of dust, the hearts of stellar…

If you’re looking for intergalactic gaming on the go, our best space mobile games list has you covered. Mobile gaming is sometimes considered a lesser form of gaming, mostly by people who consider themselves ‘proper’ gamers, but we bet they’d change their tune if they played some of these exceptional space mobile games.  Mobile gaming has come such a long way since the early days that, at times it’s basically imperceptibly different from console or PC gaming. Sure, modern console games may sometimes have bleeding-edge graphics and physical controls, but…

Mars missions have been launching from Earth with regularity since the 1960s, bent on exploring our planetary neighbor. With its potential for liquid water — and therefore, life — Mars is an alluring target.  But it’s a difficult journey, and only about half of all Mars missions successfully make it to the Red Planet, according to NASA. A “Great Galactic Ghoul” must be consuming them, joked a journalist and a NASA scientist corresponding in 1964, reported the Economist. Since the first successful flyby in 1965, several space agencies have successfully…