The Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since…
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.
Don’t be fooled! The subject of this Picture of the Week, ESO 580-49, may seem…
Correction: A follow-up paper by Barth & Stern (2018) has shown that the evidence for…
Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jovian clouds in striking shades of blue in this new image.…
Plasmas, gas-like collections of ions and electrons, make up an estimated 99 percent of the…
The path of a light beam will be bent by the presence of mass, an…
A NASA-led team has found evidence that the oversized planet WASP-18b is wrapped in a…
New research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society shows that…
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the…
In just a couple of years, NASA’s newest rover will be flying to Mars. The…
This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) targets a portion of a group of…
Nothing can emerge from a black hole. Yet, in nature, we find ultra-powerful jets of…
A study led by a researcher at the IAC and published today in Nature Astronomy…
At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole,…
Since astronomers first measured the size of an extrasolar planet seventeen years ago, they have…
“I believe the Big Bang never happened,” said Juliano César Silva Neves, a physicist at…
This artist’s rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too…