SpaceX completed a record triple-header early Sunday, launching a Globalstar communications satellite from Cape Canaveral after putting a German radar satellite in orbit from California Saturday and … [+2802 chars]
NASA is set to launch a probe the size of a tennis court to the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter this year; where the remnants of the early solar system circle the sun. After the … [+3202 chars]
A study on the atom laser titled "Continuous Bose-Einstein condensation" has been published in the journal Nature. Conventional lasers produce a coherent wave of light, meaning all of the light vibr… [+1326 chars]
Hello and welcome to yet another This Week on iTP rundown, where we list the top stories from the past week. Before we get started, we just want to which all the daddies, dads, papas, fathers, and po… [+2680 chars]
NASA's Lucy probe has gained a ninth asteroid destination for its 12-year mission. Lucy launched in October 2021 and is bound for the Trojan asteroids, which, thanks to the pull of Jupiter's imm… [+2294 chars]
A new study has revealed that Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier is retreating at the fastest rate of the last 5,500 years. The Thwaites Glacier has been given the nickname Doomsday as it has the potent… [+2367 chars]
Before we jump into the science on social media pool this Sunday, happy Juneteenth and Fathers Day to our readers in real life. Ok, onward. A commentary about a JAMA Network Open paper made a splash… [+6931 chars]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk congratulated the SpaceX team for conducting three "flawless launches" in under one week. "Congrats to SpaceX Falcon team for executing 3 flawless launches in 2 days!, Musk tweet… [+1625 chars]
A celestial workhorse and its dedicated team of astronomers are at it again by delivering a hypnotic new image of a globular cluster and its infinite depth of stars. But while a new image from the H… [+2317 chars]
ESO / M. Kornmesser Artist’s impression of the quasar. The black hole is 7,000 times brighter than the entire Milky Way, and is classified as a quasar. new study To be published in the publication… [+2028 chars]
Despite being hit by grain-sized debris flying across its path, scientists say the James Webb Space Telescope is still on track to send its first infrared images. Micrometeoroids struck the Universi… [+826 chars]
Made to last just five years, the two Voyager spacecraft are still pushing through the vacuum of space, representing humanity beyond the influence of the Sun. Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launch… [+2446 chars]