If the future unfolds like some experts forecast, the moon is going to be one bustling spaceport. Vehicles will routinely blast in and rocket off the lunar surface, part of…
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NASA tests deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘visor’
After a successful test deployment at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, clean room technicians inspect the Deployable Aperture Cover for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit:…
Moore group develops innovative technique to detect elusive particles
A new publication led by Yale Applied Physics graduate student Jiaxiang Wang in “Physical Review Letters” called “Mechanical Detection of Nuclear Decays” explains the result. Other members of the group who contributed to…
Using small black holes to find big black holes
Scientists have developed a new method for detecting supermassive binary black holes, pairs of the largest kind of black holes in the Universe and located at the very centre of…
Ancient grains of dust from space can be found on Earth—and provide clues about the life cycle of stars
In space, there are clouds that contain gas and dust ejected from stars. Our solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago from such a molecular cloud. Most of these…
Newborn moon may have had many mini-siblings in Earth orbit long ago
When Earth and our moon were much closer together than they are now, the duo could have had tiny companions, or a disk revolving around them in orbits around the…
NASA says chances are growing that astronauts may switch from Boeing to a SpaceX ride back to Earth
This photo provided by NASA shows Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft which launched astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on…
Image: Doomed star Eta Carinae
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when—it may be next year, it may be 1 million…
NASA moon probe plays laser tag with Japanese lunar lander
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on…
Astronomy ‘Olympics’ is being hosted in Africa for the first time: Four big talking points
The South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, in the country’s Northern Cape province. Credit: IAU General Assembly 2024 Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star,…
