The Rollin’ Justin robot in DLR’s planetary surface test environment at the Agency’s German Space Operations Center in Operpfaffenhofen near Munich, used for the Surface Avatar test on 24 July…
Category: Space
Stellar Demolition Derby Generates a Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst
While searching for the origins of a powerful stellar gamma-ray burst (GRB), an international team of astrophysicists may have stumbled upon a new way stars might be destroyed. Astronomers studying…
Was Olympus Mons once a giant volcanic island?
Olympus Mons: a volcanic island in the middle of a vanished Martian ocean. Credit: A.Hildenbrand/Geops/CNRS (produced from MOLA public data) Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and…
Future Ultra-Precise Timing Links to Geosynchronous Satellites
Between mountains in Hawai‘i, innovative scientists show precision timing at the quantum limit. Last year, scientists drove up Mauna Loa volcano on Hawai‘i, aimed a laser at a reflector positioned…
What Keeps Venus Looking so Young? A Powerful Jolt Early on, Perhaps
A new study suggests that higher-energy bolide impacts created a superheated core and extended volcanism on Venus — leading to its younger surface appearance. Researchers at Yale and the Southwest…
A mysterious interstellar radio signal has been blinking on and off every 22 minutes for more than 30 years
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Author provided Last year, we made an intriguing discovery—a radio signal in space that switched on and off every 18 minutes. Astronomers expect…
What Spinning, Flashing Stars Reveal About Gravitational Waves and Galaxies?
The Stanford physicist and astrophysicist Roger Blandford discusses new findings related to gravitational waves observed with the help of spinning, flashing stars – and what it could reveal about how…
Hubble images a starstruck galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, A. Filippenko The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is…
