On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer solar system planets looke… [+5597 chars]
Orbit retrievals for an exoplanet after 2 and 3 detections Orbit retrievals for an exoplanet after 2 and 3 detections. The top panel demonstrates orbital retrievals using only astrometry, and the p… [+2780 chars]
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions. The… [+3314 chars]
For the James Webb Space Telescope, milestones have been unyielding. A little more than a month since this trailblazing machine left humanity in amazement following the release of its first astonishi… [+6721 chars]
It gets weirder: Some giant planets that spark star-killing ejections may also bring new worlds into existence as they are immolated in the stellar furnace. You can have a planet that is engulfed, th… [+1956 chars]
The universe is always expanding. Scientists have believed that for decades. However, determining the universe’s expansion rate has been difficult for scientists. We may have finally found a way to d… [+1987 chars]
The Sun is in a pretty active state in recent weeks and it has been continuously spewing solar flares towards earth in that period. The Earth has been getting hit by a multiple solar storms, one afte… [+1689 chars]
TAMPA, Fla. Intelsat said Aug. 19 it has lost control of its Galaxy 15 satellite after it was likely hit by a geomagnetic storm. High space weather activity likely knocked out onboard electronics ne… [+1698 chars]
Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made progress in the preparation of mixture-based quarter-wave plate laser beam splitter (… [+2874 chars]
Tiny fragments of rock brought back from an asteroid in near-Earth solar orbit are so old, they predate the Solar System. A new analysis of samples of asteroid Ryugu has revealed the presence of min… [+3557 chars]
In the Sacred Monkey Forest of Bali, food is everywhere and masturbation is rampant. The thousand or so long-tailed macaques that live in this hotbed of hedonism have it really, really good. Every … [+3849 chars]
Emission maps of gas cooling Emission maps of gas cooling. Maps on the upper row show the [C ii] line at 158 µm, as well as the [O i] lines at 145 µm and 63 µm, which were observed with Herschel-PA… [+2604 chars]
