Planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn, alongside the moon, shine above Rome at dawn, while the Chinese space station module Tianhe crosses the sky on April 27, 2022. (Image credit: Gianluca Masi/Th… [+3256 chars]
The Carlini base on King George Island, hosting the seismometer located closest to the seismic region, and the Bransfield Strait. Credit: Milton Percy Plasencia Linares In a remote area, a mix of ge… [+5994 chars]
Early risers take note: Something beautiful has been happening in the east in the wee hours of the morning, and it's about to get even better. Over the past month, four planets Saturn, Mars, Venus a… [+3551 chars]
Welcome back to This Week in Space! After a hiatus, we’re pleased to once again bring you our Friday morning digest of all things space-related. Let’s start with NASA news. Mission: Unstoppable NAS… [+9561 chars]
On the morning of April 27, a small flaming meteor dashed across the sky with about thirty eyewitnesses, but many felt its boom. NASA has taken to its blog to detail the event, and the space agency … [+1178 chars]
Skin and gelatin have a lot more in common than you might think. Researchers from UBC have found that gelatin — and other hydrogels — use ions to carry an electrical charge that generates a voltage … [+2317 chars]
In two weeks' time, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is going to present the world with new information about our Milky Way. It's anyone's guess what the announcement will be, but based on wh… [+2725 chars]
After a three-year hiatus, the world's most powerful particle accelerator is back in business and already breaking records. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — which is operated by the European Cou… [+2303 chars]
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have detected two rocky alien worlds orbiting a nearby M dwarf star known as HD 260655. The newly found exoplanets are larger an… [+3464 chars]
A Falcon 9 spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket's first stage returned to Earth and landed on the SpaceX drone ship, which was … [+430 chars]
An aerial view of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on the campus of Michigan State University.Credit: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams One of nuclear physicists top wishes is about to come true. A… [+7979 chars]
Something deep in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is glowing with gamma radiation, and nobody can figure out for sure what it might be. Colliding dark matter has been proposed, ruled out, and then… [+3824 chars]
