Scientists have known that some galaxies reside in dense environments with many other galaxies nearby for decades. Others drift through the cosmos essentially alone, with few or no other galaxies…
Category: Astronomy
Growing plants for space: securing Earth’s sustainable future
University of Adelaide researchers are helping humanity explore among the stars by developing off-Earth agriculture and––in the process––finding interstellar solutions that could transform plant cultivation here at home. Climate change…
Top 5 Reasons Every Stargazer Should Own a Smart Telescope
There’s something magical about gazing up at the night sky, watching the stars twinkle and the planets slowly make their way across the heavens. For many, stargazing is more than…
Scientific definition of a planet says it must orbit our sun. A new proposal would change that
Planetary scientists are proposing a new definition of a planet to replace one that many researchers view as sun-centric and outdated. The current definition — established in 2006 by the…
How satellites could protect archaeology sites vulnerable to climate change
Archaeologists should consider tapping into satellite imagery when assessing the impacts climate change can have on ancient underground structures, a new study argues. Satellite studies would be one tool to…
Supermassive black hole mergers could be explained by dark matter
A team of astrophysicists that includes the University of Toronto’s Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez has shown that pairs of supermassive black holes can merge together into a single, larger black hole – a major…
Radio astronomers and satellite internet provider develop new sky-sharing system
New techniques developed by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and SpaceX enable radio astronomy telescopes to operate without interference from satellite transmissions. The techniques…
What Boeing Starliner astronauts are doing on ISS as NASA works on their ride home
Boeing Starliner’s two NASA astronauts have been busy in space since arriving two months ago on the first-ever crewed Starliner mission. While astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were expected…
India launching Earth-observing satellite tonight on 3rd mission of new rocket
India plans to launch an advanced Earth-observing satellite tonight (Aug. 15), on the third-ever mission of its new SSLV rocket. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s EOS-08 spacecraft is scheduled to…
New astrophysics research supports the existence of an unknown influence
A University of California, Riverside study has expanded our knowledge of the universe’s structure and supports the existence of a new physical effect, such as a particle that has never been observed…
