Credit: NASA The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than…
Category: Planetary Science
New gravitational waves observation run to reveal more of the universe’s secrets
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new observation run to search for ripples in space-time generated by colliding black holes and other extreme cosmic events will take gravitational wave astronomy to…
Astronomers discover new mini-Neptune exoplanet
The phase-folded and binned transit light curve of TOI-2018 b. Credit: Dai et al, 2023 An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new mini-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a…
Europe’s Euclid space telescope to launch on July 1
The ESA’s Euclid mission will chart a 3D map of the universe encompassing more than a third of the sky. The European Space Agency said on Wednesday its space telescope…
Exploring Stephan’s Quintet with multiple senses
Take a multiwavelength tour of Stephan’s Quintet, learning how we study the same object with different wavelengths of light. When combined, telescopes’ observations can provide different information and clues about…
We could see the glint off giant cities on alien worlds, suggests paper
An example of specular reflection glinting off the ‘Heart of the City’ water feature in Sheffield. Credit: Steve F., Wikimedia Commons How large would an extraterrestrial city have to be…
NASA finds key building block for life in a moon of Saturn
The icy crust at the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus is seen spewing a plume of icy particles into space. The long hunt for extraterrestrials just got a big…
Spanish rocket launch aborted due to last-minute glitch
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The maiden flight of Spain’s first rocket was aborted Saturday after countdown ended because of a last-minute technical problem, the start up PLD Space said. The…
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have had a slow evolution
Internal evolution of Europa. Credit: Kevin Trinh/ASU Jupiter’s moon, Europa, is slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon and is one of the most promising places to search for alien life. Amid…
Pulsars could help map the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
These annotated images, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) between March and July 2021, show stars orbiting very close to Sgr A*. Credit: ESO…
