Astronomy
Luca Parmitano Takes the Wheel and Test Drives a Rover From Space.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano just completed the second round of tests where he remotely-controlled a rover on Earth from the…
Messier 94 – the Cat’s Eye Galaxy
Located in the constellation Canes Venatici, roughly 15 million light years from Earth, is the spiral galaxy known as the…
Interstellar Comet Borisov is About to Make its Closest Approach to Earth
A team of astronomers from Yale have taken the clearest picture of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov to date, showcasing its…
Astronomers Are About to Detect the Light from the Very First Stars in the Universe
A team of scientists working with the Murchison Widefield Array (WMA) radio telescope are trying to find the signal from…
Building Space Telescopes… In Space
When it comes to telescopes, bigger is better. That’s true down here on Earth, and it’s especially true out in…
There Could be Planets Orbiting Around Supermassive Black Holes
A team of scientists from Japan have theorized that planetary systems could form around Supermassive Black Holes.
Astronomers Find a Galaxy Containing Three Supermassive Black Holes at the Center
NGC 6240 is a puzzle to astronomers. For a long time, astronomers thought the galaxy is a result of a…
Of the Two Stars in Alpha Centauri, One is Probably More Habitable than the Other
A new study has shown that the Alpha Centauri is not likely to support life and that one of its…
Hubble Observes the Most Powerful Gamma Ray Burst Ever Detected
An international effort involving multiple observatories and astronomers from around the world have observed the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever.
Astronomers Finally Find the Neutron Star Leftover from Supernova 1987A
Astronomers at Cardiff University have done something nobody else has been able to do. A team, led by Dr. Phil…