Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to understand lunar regolith, or Moon dust better, and its potentially damaging effects as NASA prepares to send astronauts back…
Category: Astronomy
Cornell Astronomers on Newly Approved UVEX NASA Mission
NASA has approved a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky, which will enable scientists to probe ever more deeply into how galaxies and stars evolve. A…
‘Beyond what’s possible’: new JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxies
Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of a stellar population bigger than the Milky Way from more…
Bright Galaxies Put Dark Matter to the Test
For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed not long after the Big Bang, giving scientists their first…
New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions
As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies…
Earth to be Exhibit A for Lunar Exoplanet Research
When Jake Turner was a kid in rural Colorado, he had pictures of all the Apollo lunar missions thumbtacked to his bedroom walls, along with Neil Armstrong’s words, “One small…
NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals
Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers zoomed in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as it released a bright, brief burst of radio waves. In an ejection that…
Sun’s surprising activity surge in Solar Orbiter snapshot
See how the Sun changed between February 2021 and October 2023. As the Sun approaches the maximum in its magnetic activity cycle, we see more brilliant explosions, dark sunspots, loops of…
Ready, set, go! Euclid begins its dark Universe survey
The problem was that a tiny amount of unwanted sunlight reached Euclid’s visible instrument (VIS) at specific angles, even with the spacecraft’s sunshield (its back) turned towards the Sun. Artist…
XMM-Newton Spots a Black Hole Throwing a Tantrum
Black holes are like temperamental toddlers. They spill food all the time, but ESA’s XMM-Newton has caught a black hole in the act of ‘flipping over the table’ during an…
