There is something very strange about this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. If you look closely, you can see two almost mirror images, two orange galaxies, which seem to be connected by a long … [+2833 chars]
When this occurs, the suns release a gravitational wave that distorts space. It is this phenomenon that the new telescope spots and focuses on to capture the suns' collision. However, despite the po… [+1368 chars]
Welcome back to the final installment in our "Going Interplanetary" series! In previous installments, we explored how humanity might someday live on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the Asteroid Belt,… [+20664 chars]
This observation shows a small sand dune field on the floor of Newton Crater, an approximately 300-kilometer wide crater in the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. The image shows both dome and barchan dun… [+725 chars]
China launched its Wentian space laboratory on Sunday afternoon, sending the country's largest-ever spacecraft to Earth's orbit to become part of the Tiangong space station.[Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chin… [+2383 chars]
Technology Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up with Russia's Oleg Artemyev. CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — An Italian astronaut joined a Russian cosmonaut in a rare spacewalking show of unity Thursday,… [+1758 chars]
OK, maybe that won’t buff right out. NASA has released a more detailed analysis of the damage suffered by the James Webb Space Telescope in a run-in with a micrometeoroid, and has deemed the damage “… [+3703 chars]
In the early '90s, on a trip to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dave Meyer was met with an air of exhilaration and an urgent tone. "You've got to see this." Elsewhere in the building, image… [+12944 chars]
What's coming up in the northern hemisphere's night sky in the week of 25th to 31st July. Chris Bramley Hello and welcome to Star Diary, the podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night magazine. You… [+9963 chars]
If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see? For most people, such thoughts conjure up systems that mirror the Solar System: planets orbiting a ho… [+6838 chars]
In the early '90s, on a trip to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dave Meyer was met with an air of exhilaration and an urgent tone. "You've got to see this." Elsewhere in the building, image… [+12944 chars]
To reach their conclusions, the scientists used detailed state-of-the-art crystallographic and spectroscopic examinations of the mineral lonsdaleite from the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite first found … [+1795 chars]
