NASA's acclaimed $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was launched on 25 December 2021, in replacement of the Hubble Space telescope. Nearly seven months after its launch has finally produced image… [+5254 chars]
Since September, the Perseverance rover has been picking along an ancient river delta on Mars, its robotic arms reaching out with whirling steel drill bits to core rocks, scoop soil and suck small am… [+7834 chars]
An important milestone has been reached in the newly launched CAPSTONE mission, as the tiny probe, moving in excess of 24,000 miles per hour, has escaped low Earth orbit and begun its four-month trek… [+3036 chars]
Scientists who were surveying a catalog of gas clouds spotted something strange: five "blue blobs" composed of young blue stars in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Unusually, these stars were completely i… [+1980 chars]
We have no idea what these atmospheres are made of, said Alexander Rathcke, an astronomer at the Technical University of Denmark. We have ideas, simulations, and all this stuff, but we really have no… [+1113 chars]
An illustration of events recorded with the CMS detector in 2012 show characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson (dashed yellow lines) to a pair of photons (green towers).Credit: Thomas… [+6291 chars]
Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the u… [+3879 chars]
