A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over At… [+2478 chars]
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the delightfully named Little Sombrero galaxy, called that for its long thin shape with a bulge in the middle which is reminiscent of the shape… [+2087 chars]
The release of a remarkable image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy isn’t only an incredible scientific achievement — it also agrees precisely with predictions about what black holes are … [+2691 chars]
Before the pandemic levels of anxiety were already pretty high, with one in five of us struggling. But, unsurprisingly, the figures have soared in the past couple of years, to one in three. Copin… [+2376 chars]
In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first and, to this day, only nation to fire a cannon in space. The real specifications of the mission, which is mounted on a space station, have remained… [+4174 chars]
A Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse will occur tonight (May 15) and may be a mesmerizing spectacle for Earth-bound viewers, but for the spacecraft on the moon, it's more of a hindrance. That's b… [+4714 chars]
ByRoger Jones, Lancaster UniversityMay 15, 2022 A recent series of precise measurements of already known, standard particles and processes have threatened to shake up physics. As a physicist workin… [+6733 chars]
Scientists might have just found the "fifth force" working in space. According to them, this force might be mediated by a hypothetical particle called "symmetron" or also known as "domain walls", whi… [+3212 chars]
[Photo from China National Space Administration] BEIJING -- It has been a year since China's Tianwen 1 probe reached Mars. The mission has not only marked an important step in the country's interpl… [+643 chars]
An asteroid larger than New York’s Empire State Building is approaching Earth. Photo: Getty Images. <ul><li>NASA claims that an asteroid larger than New York’s Empire State Building will pass ‘close… [+1298 chars]
Welcome back to our ongoing "Interplanetary Series." In our previous installments, we looked at what it would take to live on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the Main Asteroid Belt, and Jupiter's lar… [+25755 chars]
When NASA sends Artemis astronauts back to the surface of the moon in coming years, they should be able to grow their own salad. That's just one ramification of a historic experiment in which scienti… [+2264 chars]
