It's only a matter of time before someone is killed by falling space junk. The toll taken by space debris so far includes an Indonesian livestock pen's fence crushed by a stray fuel tank, a house in… [+10420 chars]
Enlarge/ The buildings of the IHES. 29 with 29 posters participating Even before this years Fields Medal winners announcement, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) or the Institute o… [+4328 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope is not just a remarkable feat of engineering; its a beautiful one too. Take its 18 hexagonal mirrors made from gold-plated beryllium, which inspired YouTubes Cellar Ner… [+1780 chars]
Its the stuff of disaster movies and sensational headlines: An asteroid, meteor, or comet is headed toward Earth. Are we doomed? Isnt this what took out the dinosaurs? Will we have enough lead time t… [+5500 chars]
Globular clusters are stable, tightly bound clusters of tens of thousands to millions of stars. The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 150 globular clusters. They are arranged in a nearly spherical … [+1050 chars]
The CHIME Radio Telescope Andre Renard, Dunlap Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U of Toronto/CHIME Astronomers at McGill University, MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persiste… [+3526 chars]
In the early 1990s, planetary history was made. In 1992, two astronomers, Alexander Wolszczan and Dale Frail, published a paper in Nature announcing the discovery of the very first planets outside th… [+4968 chars]
A desert and a world that seems like our own form the backdrop of The Book of Sand, the sci-fi debut of bestselling author Mo Hayder (Birdman, The Treatment). Sadly, Hayder passed away last year, but… [+23461 chars]
A team led by scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created unprecedentedly lightweight optics for X-ray space telescopes, breaking the traditional trade-off between angular resolution a… [+3657 chars]
