Astronomy

Kilonovas are incredibly rare. According to astronomers, there may only be 10 of these in the Milky Way. However, they are incredibly strong and create heavy substances such as uranium, thorium and gold. Usually combined and intense [more…]

The Vice President of the United States and Chairman of the National Space Council will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the astronauts responsible for the first crewed Dragon test flight. Event on all social media channels and NASA TV [more…]

NASA officials met last week to review the agency's overall exploration architecture, but it wasn't immediately clear what decision they made and when it will be made public. Moon and Mars announced in September [more…]

Even the most powerful space telescope ever launched faces challenges from time to time. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb), launched in December 2021 and making scientific observations since July 2022, [more…]

By analyzing meteorites, Imperial scientists discovered the possible distant origin of Earth's volatile compounds, some of which are the basis of life. The outer Sun, which includes the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, and lies outside the asteroid belt [more…]

NASA's newest space telescope not only extends astronomers' field of view deeper into the cosmos, it can also reach temperatures as low as never before. The most powerful space observatory to date. [more…]

The primary building block of the universe is hydrogen. The nature of an object's existence, whether reduced to its charged nucleus or compressed into a molecule, can reveal a lot about the properties of the Universe at the largest scales. It [more…]

These are called “Tideal Disruption Events”. But this phrase hides the subtle, unfiltered violence of a black hole encounter. A balance between black hole radiation ejecting matter and gravity pulling in stellar matter [more…]

Examining ancient data on bursts known as short gamma-ray bursts (GRB), researchers have found light showing that a superheavy neutron star exists for a short time before collapsing into a black hole. [more…]

NASA/ESA regularly publishes the Hubble Space Telescope Photos of the Week. This photo showcases a festive red glowing scene as it coincides with the Christmas season. About 7000 lights from Earth in this image [more…]

This image of the LEDA 48062 galaxy in the constellation Perseus was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Large, disk-like lenticular galaxy UGC 8603 on the left in this image, and its more clearly defined neighbor on the right [more…]

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will be at its closest point to the Sun since the end of the last ice age, before passing by Earth in February. Earth since the last ice age, or [more…]

A major advantage is that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can see far back in time. This telescope has traveled billions of years observing the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum and its elongated light by the expanding cosmos. [more…]

In April, Super Mario Bros. Mario movie adapted from the video game will be released. This is very nice. However, do you know Mario in space? University of Michigan, which stands for Measurement of Actuator Response and Impedance in orbit, approx. [more…]

At high latitudes, water and dry ice play an important role in shaping the surface of Mars. The ground is divided into polygons by the water ice frozen in the soil. Polygons, delineating channels in spring dry ice sublimation [more…]

On Thursday, all the planets of the Solar System will be visible in the night sky. The two closest planets, Uranus and Neptune, will be best seen with binoculars, while the other five planets will be visible without binoculars. Mercury and [more…]

NASA's planetary defense efforts will advance thanks to the first space telescope designed specifically for this purpose, by locating and tracking potentially dangerous near-Earth objects. NASA's Earth-orbiting and locating [more…]

NASA has expanded the definition of "UAP" to include objects converging in the sky, as well as objects appearing in water or moving between different environments. Katherine Rohloff, spokesperson for the NASA Science Mission Directorate [more…]

After months of dwindling power, the lander did not respond to pings from NASA. The lack of solar power may have caused the InSight instrument, which has been doing science on the Martian surface for more than four years, to malfunction. Yesterday [more…]

By "deep-diving" into one of Webb's iconic first photos, the researchers found multiple powerful jets and outflows from newborn stars previously obscured by dust clouds. This discovery is like our sun [more…]