Category: Astronomy & Space
A new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light by StuffsEarth
Galaxy cluster, left, with ring of dark matter visible, right. Credit: NASA A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and [Read more about this post…]
Researchers advance detection of gravitational waves to study collisions of neutron stars and black holes by StuffsEarth
The graph shows the amount of time it takes researchers to send out an alert, on average the alert time is under 30 seconds. Credit: [Read more about this post…]
Research investigates radio emission of the rotating radio transient RRAT J1854+0306 by StuffsEarth
Polarized pulse profiles of RRAT J1854+0306 with different phase bins. From left to right, the 127th pulse observed on 2021-11-22 is exhibited with 512, 4,096 [Read more about this post…]
China’s Shenzhou-18 mission docks with space station by StuffsEarth
A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. A spaceship [Read more about this post…]
NASA astronauts arrive for Boeing’s first human spaceflight by StuffsEarth
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, right, and Suni Williams speak to the media after they arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in [Read more about this post…]
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications demonstration transmits data over 140 million miles by StuffsEarth
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. [Read more about this post…]
TESS finds its first rogue planet by StuffsEarth
Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One [Read more about this post…]
Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars by StuffsEarth
ESA’s Hera mission will be humankind’s first mission to explore a binary asteroid system. The mission will perform a close-up survey of the Dimorphos asteroid, [Read more about this post…]
Recently discovered black hole is part of a nearby disrupted star cluster, study finds by StuffsEarth
Gaia DR3 extinction corrected color-magnitude diagram (CMD) showing the location of the Gaia BH3 companion (red cross) and ED-2 members (B23) as blue and empty [Read more about this post…]
A NASA rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilized life on Mars by StuffsEarth
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking [Read more about this post…]