Depiction of the different signals and the telescopes that would detect them. Credit: Palmar et al One of the most significant constraints on the size of objects placed into orbit…
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Asteroid Samples Reveal Origins of Organic Molecules in the Early Solar System
Carbon is the building block of biological life on Earth. The element is present in many compounds, such as sugars, proteins, and carbohydrate molecules, that comprise everything from animals to…
Lost in space? Just use relativity
Depiction of the three telescope system described in the paper. Credit: Paul McKee, Hoang Nguyen, Michael W. Kudenov, John A. Christian One of the hardest things for many people to…
Japan moon lander enters lunar orbit
Side view of the crater Moltke taken from Apollo 10. Credit: Public Domain Japan’s SLIM space probe entered the moon’s orbit on Monday in a major step towards the country’s…
NASA asteroid sampling mission renamed OSIRIS-APEX for new journey
These images of asteroid Apophis were recorded in March 2021 by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.…
The Goldmine of a Neutron Star Collision
International research team models the different signatures of a kilonova explosion simultaneously for the first time. Neutron stars are the end products of massive stars and gather together a large…
Webb Rings in the Holidays With the Ringed Planet Uranus
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on weird and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that orbits on its side. Webb found a dynamic world with rings,…
Innovative X-ray Lobster-Eye Mission Set to Launch
In return for contributing to the development of this mission and the definition of its scientific goals, ESA will get access to 10% of the data generated by Einstein Probe’s…
Why the universe might be a hologram
The colored circle represents the hologram, out of which the knotted optical vortex emerges. Credit: University of Bristol A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an…
NASA’s Fermi Mission Creates 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky
The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Our Sun, occasionally flaring into prominence, serenely traces a…
