A next-generation dark matter detector has started operations, already delivering its first results, which show it to be the most sensitive machine of this type on Earth. The machine could help unl… [+4074 chars]
Touted as the first idea of its kind, the team is not stopping at just building a base on the moon and Mars. Interestingly, the Lunar and Mars Glass concepts are just one part of a larger project; th… [+1278 chars]
A supermoon is expected to appear bigger and brighter to stargazers on Wednesday night. Julys full moon is known as the Buck Moon because male deer shed and regrow their antlers around this time of … [+2483 chars]
China has unfolded a large sail attached to a rocket component following a recent launch, as part of tests designed to help reduce the amount of space junk orbiting Earth. The country launched a Lon… [+2345 chars]
The Mars sailplanes will contain a custom-designed array of navigation sensors, as well as a camera and temperature and gas sensors to gather information about the Martian atmosphere and landscape. C… [+1532 chars]
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new study from physicists at CU Boulder. That popcorn-like effect may even h… [+5904 chars]
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new study from physicists at CU Boulder. That popcorn-like effect may even h… [+5904 chars]
Twinkling like cosmic lighthouses on a shore 13 billion light-years from Earth, quasars are some of the oldest, brightest relics of the early universe that astronomers can detect today. Short for "q… [+3435 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]
A supermoon is expected to appear bigger and brighter to stargazers on Wednesday night. Julys full moon is known as the Buck Moon because male deer shed and regrow their antlers around this time of … [+2483 chars]
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]
MARTIN WALL Washington Correspondent The highest resolution image of the deepest part of the universe ever seen has been released by the US space agency Nasa. At a ceremony in the White House on M… [+2861 chars]
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