Last week, NASA shared a photo captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s guidance camera that, while imperfect, is the deepest image ever captured of the universe so far. While it is one thing t… [+2178 chars]
Engineers in China have successfully deployed an ultra-thin sail attached to a rocket part to expedite its departure from low Earth orbit and reduce the amount of space junk aimlessly floating above … [+2521 chars]
A research team from the Open University and the University of Southampton is asking for the public's help to find some of the most mysterious, elusive objects in the universeblack holes. By examinin… [+2825 chars]
Using multiple radio telescopes across the world, a team of astronomers from the Cosmic Dawn Center, Copenhagen, have discovered several galaxies in the early universe that, due to massive amounts of… [+4626 chars]
If you missed last months supermoon, you have another chance. This months full moon is Wednesday. At the same time, the moons orbit will bring it closer to Earth than usual. This cosmic combo is cal… [+337 chars]
Thanks to advances in genomics in recent decades, researchers now know the genetic mutations responsible for many diseases. However, researchers often still do not know how the mutation leads to the … [+8431 chars]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the best known and most successful observatory in history, delivering unprecedented images that have tantalized the public and astronomers alike for more tha… [+4877 chars]
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ori… [+904 chars]
The story of our solar system's origin is pretty well known. It goes like this: the sun began as a protostar in its "solar nebula" over 4.5 billion years ago. Over the course of several million years… [+5874 chars]
ByJennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJuly 11, 2022 Long predicted but never observed, fluid-like electron whirlpools could be leveraged for next-gen low-power electronics. Credit: Ch… [+3469 chars]
The speed of light (300,000km/s) is the fastest possible speed that the laws of nature can allow. Or at least that’s what Albert Einstein thought. But what if the great physicist was wrong? No disres… [+1624 chars]
In May, NASA scientists said the Voyager 1 spacecraft was sending back inaccurate data from its attitude-control system. The mysterious glitch is still ongoing, according to the mission's engineering… [+4349 chars]
