Scientists are reporting the first evidence that our Earth and the universe around us are awash in a background of spacetime undulations called gravitational waves. The waves oscillate very slowly…
Category: Astronomy
BepiColombo Completes Third Mercury Flyby
Mercury is the least explored rocky planet of the Solar System, with one of the main reasons being that getting there is really difficult. As BepiColombo gets closer to the…
Trio of Images Highlight BepiColombo’s Third Mercury Flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities…
New Space Companies Join Copernicus
With commercial companies playing an increasingly important role in creating a dynamic and innovative space industry, nine New Space satellite data suppliers have joined the Copernicus program as ‘Contributing Missions’.…
Space Exploration Without Spending Millions: How?
Did you know that for the price of a brand new large utility vehicle, you could instead send your very own small satellite to the International Space Station and out…
Exoplanet Secrets About the Edge of Habitability
How close can a rocky exoplanet be to a star and still sustain water and life? Artist impression showing the exoplanet LP 890-9c’s potential evolution from a hot Earth to…
Phosphate, Key Building Block of Life, Found on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
An international team including a University of Washington scientist has found that the water on one of Saturn’s moons harbors phosphates, a key building block of life. The team led…
NASA’s Webb Proves Galaxies Transformed the Early Universe
In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque – energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But the gas had become completely transparent 1 billion years after…
Galaxies Deep Dive, Leave Fiery Tail Behind
A group of galaxies is plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an enormous tail of superheated gas. Coma cluster of galaxies. Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/SAO/Univ. of…
Black Hole Shadow and Powerful Jet Seen Together
This is what the black hole’s shadow looks like when it is cast on the powerful relativistic jet emanating from the center of the radio galaxy. This is the shadow…
