Here’s Exactly how Engineers Are Aligning JWST’s Segmented Mirrors
Engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope are in the midst of an intricate, three-month-long process of aligning the telescope’s…
Gaia Finds Ancient Satellite Galaxy Pontus Embedded in Milky Way
A recent study looked at stellar streams hidden in Gaia’s data, to uncover a torturous past.
One Crater on the Moon is Filled with Ice and Gas that Came from a Comet Impact
After reanalyzing data from the LRO mission, a team of scientists has determined that water ice observed in a lunar…
How Time Flies: Perseverance and Ingenuity Have Been on Mars for a Year
What a year it’s been -- Earth year, that is! The dramatic touchdown on Mars for the Perseverance rover and…
NASA and HeroX are Crowdsourcing the Search for Life on Mars
NASA and HeroX have launched the Mars Spectrometry Challenge, which will reward a total of $30,000 for new ideas on…
James Webb Might be Able to Detect Other Civilizations by their Air Pollution
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched last December, has been slowly powering up its instruments and unfurling its sunshield,…
Twin Brown Dwarfs Discovered, Orbiting one Another at Three Times the Distance From the Sun to Pluto
Gravity is a funny force. The gravity of every given object technically impacts every other given object, though, in practice,…
Atomic Clocks Separated by Just a few Centimetres Measure Different Rates of Time. Just as Einstein Predicted
The connection between relativity and quantum mechanics has been a black box for the world of physics for decades. That…
Imaging the Galaxy’s Centre in Unprecedented Detail Reveals More Mysterious Filaments
The inner 600 light years of our galaxy is a maelstrom of cosmic radiation, turbulent swirling gas clouds, intense star…
New Photos Show a Black Hole Blasting out Powerful Winds
Pictures of galaxies never cease to amaze, and astronomers are consistently coming up with new ones that provide a different…