In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing in our…
Category: Space
The Moon is 40M Years Older Than Previously Thought
Researchers recalculated the age of the Earth’s moon by analyzing tiny lunar zircon crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. Although previous assessments estimated the moon to be over…
NASA orbiter snaps stunning views of Mars horizon
This unusual view of the horizon of Mars was captured by NASA’s Odyssey orbiter using its THEMIS camera, in an operation that took engineers three months to plan. It’s taken…
Next-generation space telescopes could use deformable mirrors to image Earth-sized worlds
The Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph during assembly of the static optics at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Credit: Dr. Eduardo Bendek Observing distant objects is no easy task, thanks to our…
Australian Scientists Detect Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Ever Discovered
In a tiny fraction of a second the radio burst released the equivalent of our Sun’s total emission over 30 years. A new generation of radio telescopes will allow us…
Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of the Milky Way
The latest image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense centre of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to…
Tracking an errant space rocket to a mysterious crater on the moon
The far side of the moon, with distant Earth in the background, is visible in this photo taken by the moon-orbiting module of the Chang’e 5-T1 mission. Credit: Chinese National…
Milky Way-like Galaxy Found in the Early Universe
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including astronomer Alexander de la Vega of the University of California, Riverside, has discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar…
