Category: Astronomy

New computer simulation of the universe as a promising multitool. Comparison of the distributions of neutrinos (top) and dark matter (bottom), based on an observer positioned in the middle of…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is suing SpaceX, alleging that the company discriminated against job applicants who are refugees or asylum recipients. The lawsuit claims that, from September 2018…

A satellite has spotted the wreckage of the plane that went down in northwestern Russia on Wednesday (Aug. 23), apparently with Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin on board. The plane, an…

Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don’t know exactly how they…

The target for a space debris cleanup mission is apparently in pieces. A leftover rocket adapter, expected to be removed from low Earth orbit in 2026, has new pieces of…

The largest storm in the solar system, a 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone called the Great Red Spot, has decorated Jupiter’s surface for hundreds of years. A huge storm dominates the rather featureless…

With two solar eclipses coming up in North America everyone’s focusing on getting the best view, but do you need the kind of magnification offered by the Celestron EclipSmart 12x50mm…

NASA’s DART mission crashed a spacecraft into the nearby asteroid Dimorphos to test a possible strategy for deflecting asteroids that are headed for Earth. The test succeeded in knocking Dimorphos…

University of Sydney partners with Spiral Blue for the TOLIMAN space telescope mission to look for habitable planets using artificial intelligence. Backed by the Breakthrough Initiatives, Professor Peter Tuthill will…

Longest time-lapse footage of an exoplanet to date was assembled from real data. A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of an exoplanet to date.  Constructed from…