A close-up image of one of the new crystals taken using an electron microscope. (Image credit: Taskaev et al.) (opens in new tab)Researchers have discovered never-before-seen types of crystal hidden… [+4268 chars]
A newly released Hubble Space Telescope image shows the rim of a galactic "sombrero" shining in the dark. This galaxy is nicknamed the "Little Sombrero" for its hat-like appearance; its more officia… [+2323 chars]
Around 2030, the Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from the numerical naming convention. It will also be an upgrade. Even when Landsat 9 was … [+2814 chars]
A new telescope, made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, will track down sources of gravitational waves. The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), led by the… [+5214 chars]
Ten years ago this week, two international collaborations of groups of scientists, including a large contingent from Caltech, confirmed that they had found conclusive evidence for the Higgs boson, an… [+8928 chars]
A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet's severe weather, cl… [+6071 chars]
University College Cork (UCC) paleontologists have discovered why hundreds of fossil frogs died in an ancient swamp 45 million years ago: It happened during mating. The watery death trap in the Geis… [+2718 chars]
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft deploys its solar arrays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Starting from May 6 and continuing until June 16,[{” attribute=””>NASAs Lucy mission team carried out a… [+2245 chars]
The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 competition has revealed this year’s shortlisted photos from all over the globe. Competition for the World’s Greatest… [+3320 chars]
Recently, scientists have discovered a massive sunspot that is facing Earth that has doubled in size in the past few days and it might fire solar flares in our direction putting all communications an… [+1739 chars]
Astronomers have discovered an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy on the edges of Andromeda. Designated as Pegasus V, the dwarf galaxy is very poor in metals, which in astrophysics, are all elements heavier th… [+2604 chars]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday announced that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. … [+1884 chars]
