Challenger disaster: 40 years ago today
Reported by Space | EarthSky
January 28, 1986. On today's date 40 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51-L) exploded and broke apart 73 seconds into its flight.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:13 +0000
Snow Buries the U.S. Interior and East
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Satellites observed a frozen landscape across much of the country after a massive winter storm....
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:01 +0000
Biofilms May Have Sparked Life on Earth—and Could Sustain It in Space
Reported by Universe Today
How can microorganism communities known as biofilms, and have been hypothesized to be responsible for early life on Earth, be used for space exploration? This is what a recent study published in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes hopes to address as an internati...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:01 +0000
The "China Sky Eye" Traces Fast Radio Bursts to a Binary Star System
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An international team of astronomers has uncovered the first definitive evidence that at least some fast radio bursts (FRBs) originate in binary stellar systems....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:38 +0000
Intermittent Black Hole Jets Are Like A 'Cosmic Volcano'
Reported by Universe Today
Supermassive black holes grow larger by accreting matter. When they're actively accreting matter they're called active galactic nuclei (AGN). AGN are the most luminous sources of persistent radiation in the Universe, yet they turn on and off as the SMBH pa...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:04 +0000
Stellar Fireworks at the Heart of the Milky Way
Reported by Universe Today
Using the South Pole Telescope, astronomers have detected powerful stellar flares erupting from stars near the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Operating at millimetre wavelengths that can penetrate the dust obscuring our view of the...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:59 +0000