NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made an unexpected discovery — a pair of gravitationally bound quasars inside two merging galaxies that existed when the universe was just three billion years old.…
Category: Astronomy
Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth possible. This…
Laboratory solar flares reveal clues to bursts of high-energy particles from space
Simulating solar flares on a scale the size of a banana, U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers at Caltech have parsed out how these massive explosions blast potentially harmful energetic particles and X-rays into…
NASA’s Perseverance Images May Show Record of Wild Martian River
Years ago, scientists noticed a series of curving bands of layered rock within Jezero Crater that they dubbed “the curvilinear unit.” They could see these layers from space but are…
Sun, Moon and Earth aligned: 2023 total eclipse at sea, what it was like to witness it
The fascinating story about witnessing the 2023 total eclipse at sea, off the coast of Australia. As the Co-Director of Swinburne’s Space Technology and Industry Institute, I can apply my…
Networking infrastructure for satellite constellations, through a new partnership
The race is on to provide high speed satellite internet to the Earth’s most remote areas. New tech companies such as Starlink, One Web, and Amazon’s Kuiper are competing with…
Aliens could soon detect life on Earth
New research suggests that aliens on nearby stars could detect Earth through radio signals leaked from the planet. Radiotelescope – illustrative photo. Image credit: Brenton Pearce via Unsplash, free license…
Mysterious Origins of Martian Meteorites
In August 1865, a 10-pound Martian rock fell from space to Earth, landing with a bang in the remote village of Sherghati, India. After being recovered by witnesses to the…
The Bizarre Behavior of Black Holes
A Cosmic Chirp Many black holes are found in pairs that orbit each other like ice dancers. Eventually they collide, merge, and coalesce into one giant body. The National Science…
Star swallowing a planet observed for the first time
As a star runs out of fuel, it will billow out to a million times its original size, engulfing any matter — and planets — in its wake. Scientists have…
