As explained by the symposium chair, Prof. Andreas Madlung (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington), summarizing the Responses to Light concurrent symposium, presented Sunday, July 10 at Plant… [+4107 chars]
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are massive expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's surface, the corona. They send highly-charged particles in waves out towards the outer Solar System. … [+1174 chars]
The European Space Agencys (ESA) European Space Module (ESM) is set to launch into space on Monday as part of Project Artemis, NASAs return trip to the Moon. As a key component of the Orion spacecra… [+1511 chars]
Debris from the most spectacular cometary explosion of all time is visible from Earth this month, and astronomers are hoping observations can shed light on the puzzling event that lit up the sky in 2… [+2678 chars]
Ever since humanity learnt that giant lizard-like animals once roamed the Earth through the likes of William Buckland, the palaeontology community has been rife with theories regarding the dinosaurs'… [+3441 chars]
CHENNAI: NASA on Tuesday unveiled new telescopic images of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, that show auroras, altitude levels, and cloud covers captured by the James Webb Space Teles… [+457 chars]
China is developing the world's largest radio telescope array which will be directed toward the sun to study the violent solar eruptions. Named Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT), the circular arr… [+1899 chars]
How big can a star grow? Not as huge as we imagined, it turns out. The sharpest images ever taken of the biggest known star indicate the upper limit to a sun's mass is probably a lot smaller than pr… [+4128 chars]
As the Sun progresses in its lifecycle, it is expected to slowly grow large as the hydrogen fuel runs out in its core, leading to the slow spiral that will result in the Sun becoming a white dwarf.
We've had a shift in weather and another small taste of human stressors at the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) on Devon Island in the Arctic. When we arrived here, it was sunny with temperatures in the… [+5812 chars]
SpaceX successfully splashed down its Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Florida with cargo and supplies from the International Space Station late last weekend. The aerospace company has released a v… [+2116 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a new map of Mars which reveals the red planets mineral deposits resulting from its watery past. The agency says that this map would prove invaluable for … [+2250 chars]
