Scientists are reporting the first evidence that our Earth and the universe around us are awash in a background of spacetime undulations called gravitational waves. The waves oscillate very slowly…
Category: Space
Scientists find key evidence for existence of nanohertz gravitational waves
FAST helps find key evidence for the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves with its high sensitivity. Credit: NAOC of CAS A group of Chinese scientists has recently found key evidence…
‘Smiling cat’ Sh2-284 nebula captured in new image
This spectacular picture of the Sh2-284 nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Sh2-284 is a star formation region, and at…
BepiColombo Completes Third Mercury Flyby
Mercury is the least explored rocky planet of the Solar System, with one of the main reasons being that getting there is really difficult. As BepiColombo gets closer to the…
Researchers model and test ground conditions on the moon
On the moon, the landscape covered in what is called regolith—a mixture of dust, larger particles, and fragments. Credit: NASA From 1967 to 1972, the American space agency NASA conducted…
Trio of Images Highlight BepiColombo’s Third Mercury Flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities…
New Space Companies Join Copernicus
With commercial companies playing an increasingly important role in creating a dynamic and innovative space industry, nine New Space satellite data suppliers have joined the Copernicus program as ‘Contributing Missions’.…
Space Exploration Without Spending Millions: How?
Did you know that for the price of a brand new large utility vehicle, you could instead send your very own small satellite to the International Space Station and out…
Our galaxy’s black hole not as sleepy as thought: astronomers
The first ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that sit at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The supermassive black hole lurking at the center of…
