TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, was launched in 2018 with the goal of discovering…
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.
A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from…
New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could…
[October 26, 2020] Update: The announcement is that NASA has confirmed, for the first time,…
The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station just three hours after launch…
Climate changes associated with global warming can affect astronomical observations. That is the result of…
University of Chicago scientists teach a neural net to find baby star flares. Like its…
Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday,…
No one has yet found the first stars. They’re hypothesized to have formed about 100…
Asteroids have been orbiting the sun for thousands of millennia in deep space, standing as…
Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the…
Captured on October 20, 2020, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this…
Super Heavyweight and Flyweight in a Cosmic Dance Volunteer distributed computing project Einstein@Home discovers neutron…
After 196 days living and working in Earth’s orbit aboard the International Space Station, NASA…
A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds a galaxy, also…
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the…
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space…
The monstrous black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy—now of Nobel Prize…