First look: NASA’s James Webb space telescope fully stowed
Credit: Credits: ArianeSpace.com NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits not misaligned
First scientific result by the new spectrograph on the Subaru telescopeCredit: NAOJ Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that ...
New comet discovered by ESA and NASA solar observatory
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO In late May and early June, Earthlings may be able to glimpse Comet SWAN. The comet is currently ...
Where neutrinos come from
Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black holes in far-off quasarsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian astrophysicists have come ...
What’s Mars made of?
Researchers simulate the core of Mars to investigate its composition and originCredit: CC-0 Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to ...
Hayabusa2 reveals more secrets from Ryugu
Ryugu's interaction with the sun changes what we know about asteroid historyCredit: © 2020 Morota et al. In February and ...
Telescopes and spacecraft join forces to probe deep into Jupiter’s atmosphere
These images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini ...
NASA CubeSat mission to gather vital space weather data
Credit: Credits: NASA NASA has selected a new pathfinding CubeSat mission to gather data not collected since the agency flew ...
Graphene sets sail in microgravity
Credit: Dr. Santiago Jose Cartamil-Bueno Overseas exploration and trade during the Age of Discovery (15th-17th centuries) were possible by sail ...
Recipients of 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize announced
Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel are honoured for their defining contributions to cosmological simulationsCredit: IAU The Gruber Cosmology Prize, which ...
ESO instrument finds closest black hole to Earth
Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eyeCredit: ESO/L. Calçada A team of astronomers from the European ...
Free use of Kudos Pro to help researchers keep communicating during pandemic disruption
Credit: Kudos Innovations Ltd For immediate release - Oxford, UK - May 1st, 2020 - Kudos, the award-winning service for ...
New study examines which galaxies are best for intelligent life
Galaxies such as our own Milky Way are more likely to harbor intelligent, technologically advanced civilizations, paper arguesCredit: Russell Cothren ...
£1.2 million awarded to improve our understanding of the Sun
Researchers from Northumbria University have been awarded £1.2m to help advance our understanding of the Sun and its impact on ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope to unravel riddles of a stellar nursery
Credit: Credit: ESO/M.McCaughrean et al. (AIP) A bustling stellar nursery in the picturesque Orion Nebula will be a subject of ...
Gravitational waves could prove the existence of the quark-gluon plasma
Computer models of merging neutron stars predicts how to tell when this happensCredit: Lukas R. Weih & Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe ...
Astronomers capture rare images of planet-forming disks around stars
Credit: Jacques Kluska et al. An international team of astronomers has captured fifteen images of the inner rims of planet-forming ...
NASA scientists tapped to mature more rugged seismometer system to measure moonquakes
Credit: NASA NASA hasn't measured moonquakes since Apollo astronauts deployed a handful of measuring stations at various locations on the ...
Making a ‘strange’ discovery
UH physics team awarded $2.3 million to search for elusive matterCredit: University of Houston - A few microseconds after the ...
Hubble watches comet ATLAS disintegrate into more than 2 dozen pieces
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and D. Jewitt (UCLA) These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken ...
