The long process of getting the James Webb Space Telescope ready for science operations continues, with the ongoing alignment of three of its instruments. Webb recently reached the major milestone o… [+2485 chars]
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have relea… [+2184 chars]
Collecting satellite data for research is a group effort thanks to this app developed for Android users. Camaliot is a campaign funded by the European Space Agency, and its first project focuses on m… [+5214 chars]
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This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary, and then in through the aft optics assembly where t… [+4807 chars]
Species that rely on darkness to forage and feed are losing the gift of camouflage thanks to advances in the lighting used to illuminate the world’s cities and coastlines, a study has shown.The world… [+4777 chars]
Species that rely on darkness to forage and feed are losing the gift of camouflage thanks to advances in the lighting used to illuminate the world's cities and coastlines, a study has shown. The wor… [+5428 chars]
Washington: NASA said it has ordered six additional resupply missions from SpaceX under its Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract and also placed an order for six more missions with aerospa… [+1372 chars]
In the past 24 hours, people uploaded more than 720,000 hours' worth of footage onto YouTube. According to calculations made a few years ago by University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson, this… [+4214 chars]
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