Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover isn’t on the move, it works pretty well as a sundial, as seen in two black-and-white videos recorded on Nov. 8,…
Category: Space
Hubble Sights a Galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ Light
This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has an extremely energetic…
The Case of the Missing Phosphorus: Astronomers Find Life Ingredient at Galaxy’s Edges
An artist’s illustration of the Milky Way galactic plane, believed to span just over 100,000 light-years. The discovery of phosphorus, a critical ingredient of life on Earth, in a far-away…
Indian astronomers explore open cluster NGC 6940 with AstroSat
The spatial distribution, proper motion, and parallax distributions of the members of NGC 6940 and sample sources determined using the ML-MOC algorithm. Credit: Panthi and Vaidya, 2023 Using the AstroSat…
Southampton Set to Support Development of Next-gen Gravitational Wave Detectors
University of Southampton researchers are set to play a key role in developing the next generation of gravitational wave detectors, which could help astronomers probe the furthest reaches of the…
Using smart materials to deploy a Dark Age explorer
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…
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.…
