The amount of data that will be collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which released its fabulous first-light images this week, will far outweigh what any telescope before it…
Category: Space
The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some
Mercury seen by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft on the left. On the right, there’s an approximation of Mercury’s true colour as might be seen by the human eye. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins…
Dwarf galaxy glows red in the Hunting Dogs constellation photo of the day for June 25, 2025
Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It’s part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to…
Construction on Mars takes a leap forward
Credit: Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half-century have made this seemingly far-fetched idea…
Radio signals from the dawn of time could help ‘weigh’ the universe’s 1st stars
Astronomers could use specific radio signals from the universe’s earliest epoch to “weigh” the first stars in the cosmos. The investigation could reveal more about the so-called Cosmic Dawn, the…
Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more
ESA’s Biomass is the first satellite to carry a P-band synthetic aperture radar. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, this novel radar is able to penetrate…
Moon dust is less toxic than urban air pollution, scientists discover
Moon dust may not be as harmful to humans as had been thought, with a new experiment showing that the typical air pollution on a busy street is more toxic…
May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study reveals
Location signals beamed to Earth by GPS satellites were off by hundreds of feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May last year, and the disruption lasted for up to…
Nobel laureate concerned about AI-generated image of black hole at the center of our galaxy
The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning at ear “top speed,” according to a new artificial intelligence (AI) model. The model, trained partially on complex…
