The image does not look very impressive, just a faint, somewhat blurry dot. However that dot is an image of the oldest and most distant individual star we have ever seen. Its light has taken 12.8 bi… [+3984 chars]
Astronomers have detected a 'galactic space laser' shooting light beams at Earth from 5 billion light years away. The powerful radio-wave 'laser', called a 'megamaser', was detected by the MeerKAT … [+5667 chars]
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea An analysis of the genetic material in the ocean has identified thousands of previously unknown RNA viruses and doub… [+4686 chars]
Particle detector inside the collision hall. Fermilab You may have heard of protons, which are positive points that prove atoms. You’ve likely come across electrons, negative flashes wandering aro… [+7357 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to cool down out at its location at Lagrange Point 2, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Since JWST is an infrared telescope, it needs to operate at ext… [+3358 chars]
A powerful telescope in South Africa has detected a space laser, known as a megamaser, 5 billion light-years from Earth. Scholars have called it Nkalakatha, an Izulu word meaning “big chief.” Nkala… [+1503 chars]
(CNN)A third attempt at a crucial prelaunch test for NASA's Artemis I mission to the moon will begin on Saturday, after the two previous tries were called off, the agency said in a news release. Th… [+954 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to cool down out at its location at Lagrange Point 2, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Since JWST is an infrared telescope, it needs to operate at ext… [+3353 chars]
Astronomers have detected a 'galactic space laser' shooting light beams at Earth from 5 billion light years away. The powerful radio-wave 'laser', called a 'megamaser', was detected by the MeerKAT … [+5667 chars]
Mark Pathy isn't the type for being in the spotlight but, being part of the historic first civilian mission to the space station, he hasn't had much choice. "If I could have done this in complete an… [+6619 chars]
It's difficult to predict with certainty what will happen when giant stars collide, but new, first-of-their-kind hydrodynamic simulations by the DEMOBLACK team at the University of Padova in Italy po… [+4381 chars]
After 10 years of careful analysis and scrutiny, scientists of the CDF collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today that they have achieved t… [+4424 chars]