Credit: BFA / Warner Bros Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message at its heart. The novels and movies are set on the desert planet of…
Category: Space
Our survey of the sky is uncovering the secrets of how planets are born
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/C. Ginski, A. Garufi, P.-G. Valegård et al. When we look out to the stars, it is…
Businesses are ready for April’s total solar eclipse with celestial-themed doughnuts and beer
A donut with toppings representing an eclipse is displayed at the Donut Dude shop on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Liberty Township, Ohio. Businesses are capitalizing on the April 8,…
Scientists propose a new method to search for light dark matter
A map of dark matter from 2021 using weak gravitational lensing data set. Credit: Dark Energy Survey. darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/. New research in Physical Review Letters (PRL) has proposed a novel method…
Astronomers Spot Oldest ‘Dead’ Galaxy Yet Observed
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have spotted a ‘dead’ galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years…
NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side
The plane of our Milky Way galaxy is seen in ESA’s Gaia space mission. It contains more than a billion stars and darker, dusty regions Gaia couldn’t see through. With…
NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
The science team also detected simpler molecules, including formic acid (which causes the burning sensation of an ant sting), methane, formaldehyde, and sulfur dioxide. Research suggests that sulfur-containing compounds like…
NASA-Supported Team Discovers Aurora-Like Radio Bursts Above Sunspot
A NASA-funded team of scientists has discovered long-lasting radio signals emanating from the Sun that are similar to those associated with auroras—the northern and southern lights—on Earth. Scientists have discovered…
NASA Armstrong updates 1960s concept to study giant planets
The lifting body aircraft on Rogers Dry Lake, near what is now NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, include, from left, the X-24A, the M2-F3, and the HL-10.…
