While on COVID lockdown, a University of Sydney undergraduate honors student has written a research…
Browsing: Space
Space refers to the vast, seemingly infinite expanse beyond Earth’s atmosphere where planets, stars, galaxies, and cosmic phenomena exist. It is a realm defined by extreme conditions—near vacuum, intense radiation, and temperatures ranging from blistering heat to freezing cold. Space exploration has revealed a universe rich with complexity, from black holes and exoplanets to the cosmic microwave background that offers clues to the Big Bang. For scientists, space is both a frontier and a laboratory, offering insights into fundamental physics, the origins of the universe, and the potential for life beyond Earth. It continues to inspire curiosity, innovation, and a deeper sense of our place in the cosmos.
The small Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, encountered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on January…
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts a special class of star-forming…
Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other organizations around the world, astronomers…
Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy…
New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these…
An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has…
Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know very little…
On September 14, 2020, a new planet was added to the list of potentially habitable…
Massive stars end their lives with energetic explosions known as supernova explosions. ‘Stripped-envelope supernovae’ show…
Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in the early solar…
ESA’s Rosetta mission discovers unique aurora at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Data from Southwest Research Institute-led instruments…
When the first woman and next man land on the Moon in 2024, they will…
NASA’s extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up – one…
An international team of researchers led by the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS…
ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider…
Sharpness of Gemini South’s star-forming image matches expected resolution of Webb Space Telescope. NASA’s James…
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be…