Astronomers have witnessed a rare and important life event in the evolution of binary star couplings for the first time. The team discovered a tight binary star surrounded by an expanding shell of … [+3416 chars]
Life-like laser: Titanium dioxide microparticles clustering around a Janus particle. The dashed line delineates the lasing area, and the pink/yellow lines show the 275 s-long tracks of several microp… [+3510 chars]
This week is full of asteroid flybys as not one but four space rocks are hurtling toward the Earth this week. According to NASA, these flybys will begin in the early hours of July 30 when the asteroi… [+1881 chars]
Morning rocket launches can create a glow, and we're not just talking about the liftoff event. A new study links increased rocket launches to noctilucent clouds high in Earth's atmosphere, bumping u… [+3989 chars]
Hello, lovelies, and welcome to your favorite space news breakdown. This week, it’s mostly planets and geopolitics, with relatively little launch news. Shall we? SpaceX Next Crew Launch Delayed By D… [+7414 chars]
For the first time in almost 5,000 years of observations, researchers have fully cataloged optical illusions created in the sky as light shines through ice crystals known as atmospheric halos. The … [+4843 chars]
Astronomers have created the largest-ever 3D map of a million distant galaxies obscured by the Milky Way’s neighboring dwarf galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. Magellanic clouds form irregularly gala… [+3130 chars]
Using an innovative microscopy method, scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT observed how newborn neurons struggle to reach their proper places in advanced human brain ti… [+6321 chars]
Radio waves from space flow through our atmosphere every day, but the fast, steady and repeated bursts that were detected in 2019 and recently released to the public are unusual and mysterious. Kiy… [+830 chars]
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Scientists experimenting on mice have found evidence that key parts of the modern human brain take more time to develop than those of our long extinct cousin, the Neanderthal. Like the hare and the … [+3365 chars]
Some coronal loops that appear to emerge from the sun could actually be optical illusions created by folds or wrinkles in large sheets of stellar material called coronal veils, new research suggests.… [+5238 chars]