Around the world, astrophysicists are poring over the blips of gravitational waves that ripple through Earth when distant black holes or neutron stars collide. One of those astrophysicists is Christine Ye, a 17-year-old student...
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The rockets launch window for NASA’s Ion-Neutral Coupling during Active Aurora mission opened Wednesday (March 23) and runs through April 1; another window is open from April 3–7. The Wednesday launch was scrubbed due to...
Take three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast. That’s the conclusion of new research digging into a particularly strange gravitational...
One of the James Webb Telescope first studies will seek to tell us more about 19 nearby galaxies and how they fit into our neighborhood’s history. The infrared images taken from deep space will allow Webb telescope...
PLANETARY TRANSITS AND OSCILLATIONS OF STARS (PLATO) Expected launch date: 2026 PLATO will seek out and investigate Earth-size exoplanets, especially planets that orbit in the habitable zone around sun-like stars. (The...
Near-Earth objects are Asteroid and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) of the Sun, which means they can circulate through the Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Most near-Earth...
On March 4, 2022, the spent upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the moon. The debris has been in space since February of 2015, when it launched the Deep Space Climate Observatory into space. The...
Two recent studies shed new light on the Moon’s origin story, suggesting that there’s more to the formation of Earth’s natural satellite. One study claims a messier origin to the Moon with multiple collisions that birthed...
Chinese scientists have built an “artificial moon” research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism. Scientists plan to use the artificial moon facility to test...
Glowing with the radiance of 10 million times that of our own Sun, Pistol Star is one of the intrinsically brightest stars in our Galaxy. It appears as the bright white dot in the centre of this image. Related articles:...
If the universe is infinite in size, you don’t really need to worry about this conundrum. The universe, being all there is infinitely big and has no edge, so there’s no outside to even talk about. Related articles:...
The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 150 globular clusters. The exact number is uncertain because of obscuration by dust in the Milky Way band, which probably prevents some globular clusters from being seen. Messier...
Coconuts-2b is a rarity among exoplanet discoveries: a relatively cool, massive gas giant, orbiting its star at a great distance. The closest directly imaged exoplanet to Earth to date – at a distance of just 35...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission will include three Earth gravity assists and visits to eight asteroids. Lucy spacecraft mission will...
The DART mission, a Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), will be the first agency’s use of the kinetic impactor technique, in which a large, high-speed spacecraft is sent into an asteroid’s path to change its...