Researchers reveal hemispheric asymmetry of long-term sunspot activity Ph.D. candidate Zhang Xiaojuan and Prof. Deng Linhua from Yunnan Observatories of…
What’s Weather Prediction Worth? Weather predictions have been pushed ahead dramatically since the 1960s, when an accurate forecast maxed out…
Winds and jet streams found on the closest brown dwarf A University of Arizona-led research team has found bands and…
Study of nebula IRAS 00500+6713 suggests its central star is unlike any seen before A team of researchers from Potsdam…
NASA’s first mission to the Trojan asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to…
Astronomers agree: Universe is nearly 14 billion years old From an observatory high above Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken…
Ripples in space-time could provide clues to missing components of the universe There’s something a little off about our theory…
Chinese astronomers discover 591 high-velocity stars with LAMOST and Gaia A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories…
Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics…
To help trudge through the snow, the chang’e-5 recovery team wore powered exoskeletons Other worlds aren’t the only difficult terrain…
Observations shed more light on the atmosphere of white dwarf GD 424 Astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a newly…
New supercluster discovered by astronomers By analyzing the data from the eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS), an international team…
Periodic and phase-locked modulation in the pulsar PSR B1929+10 investigated with FAST Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),…
Using AI to count and map craters on the moon A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China,…
Why radio astronomers need things quiet in the middle of a Western Australia desert A remote outback station about 800km…
If a planet has a lot of methane in its atmosphere, life is the most likely cause The ultra-powerful James…
Japanese spacecraft’s gifts: Asteroid chips like charcoal They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an…
Earthlings and astronauts chat away, via ham radio The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio…
A blazar in the early Universe The supersharp radio ‘vision’ of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)…
How nearby galaxies form their stars Stars are born in dense clouds of molecular hydrogen gas that permeates interstellar space…
Recently discovered comet seen during 2020 total solar eclipse As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec….
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer…
Russia lifts UK telecom satellites into orbit A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East…
Multi-messenger astronomy offers new estimates of neutron star size and universe expansion A combination of astrophysical measurements has allowed researchers…
Unique prediction of ‘modified gravity’ challenges dark matter theory An international group of scientists, including Case Western Reserve University Astronomy…
Researchers identify where giant jets from black holes discharge their energy The supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies…
Solar eclipse plunges southern Chile, Argentina into darkness Thousands of people turned their heads to the sky to watch a…
‘Lost connection’ hampers Virgin Galactic’s test flight (Update) A Virgin Galactic test flight Saturday ended prematurely as the spacecraft’s rocket…
Chile awaits total eclipse of the sun as Covid restrictions rise Chileans will turn their eyes to the sky on…
Festive treat for stargazers as Geminid meteors peak Stargazers across the northern hemisphere could see as many as 70 meteors…
Hubble pins down weird exoplanet with far-flung orbit that behaves like the long-sought ‘Planet Nine’ A planet in an unlikely…
Neighbourhood watch: What the mission to map the Milky Way is revealing about satellite galaxies Our Milky Way is not…
Study confirms dark coating can reduce satellite reflectivity Observations conducted by the Murikabushi Telescope of Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory confirmed that…
Asteroid Ryugu dust delivered to Earth; NASA astrobiologists prepare to probe it On Dec. 6 local time (Dec. 5 in…
Japan’s capsule with asteroid samples retrieved in Australia A Japanese capsule carrying the world’s first asteroid subsurface samples shot across…
Japan awaits capsule’s return with asteroid soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully released a small capsule on Saturday and sent…
Hayabusa 2: Returning asteroid sample could help uncover the origins of life and the solar system What is your idea…
Supercomputer simulations could unlock mystery of Moon’s formation Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have…
Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled ‘asteroids’ arcade game One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than…
Mapping stellar nurseries in the Milky Way An international team of Astronomers from the Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN) identified nearly 120,000…
The solar system follows the galactic standard—but it is a rare breed Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…
Galaxy survives black hole’s feast—for now Black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material that they put…
Comet 2019 LD2 (ATLAS) found to be actively transitioning A comet discovered last year is offering scientists new insights into…
Cyprus rocky testing ground for Mars International and Cypriot experts on Friday discussed a research project to test space equipment…
New Hubble data explains missing dark matter New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides further evidence for tidal…
Graduate student first to spot asteroid speeding past Earth For as long as he can remember, Cole Gregg has been…
Hearts, airlocks, and asteroids: New research flies on 21st SpaceX cargo mission The 21st SpaceX cargo resupply mission that launches…
China launches mission to bring back material from moon China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks…
US-European ocean monitoring satellite launches into orbit A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface…
Astronomers discover new ‘fossil galaxy’ buried deep within the Milky Way Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky…
Field geology at Mars’ equator points to ancient megaflood Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’…
Astronaut: SpaceX Dragon beats shuttle, Soyuz for launching The most experienced astronaut on SpaceX’s newly launched crew said Thursday that…
The ‘Workspace of the future,’ vizLab will unlock the secrets of the universe In a refurbished Southern California garage, Carnegie…
Bad cabling blamed for failed launch of European satellites Arianespace said Tuesday that wrong cabling was likely to blame for…
Texas astronomers revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the moon A group of astronomers from The University of Texas…
SpaceX aims for night crew launch, Musk sidelined by virus SpaceX aimed for a Sunday night launch of four astronauts…
SpaceX crew flight delayed; Musk gets mixed COVID-19 results SpaceX delayed its second astronaut flight by a day because of…
Potential plumes on Europa could come from water in the crust Plumes of water vapor that may be venting into…
Escape from Mars: How water fled the red planet Mars once had oceans but is now bone-dry, leaving many to…
Tree rings may hold clues to impacts of distant supernovas on Earth Massive explosions of energy happening thousands of light-years…
Transmitting data from space to earth with laser filaments Could light be used to transmit information between satellites and Earth?…
A second cable fails at NSF’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico A main cable that supports the Arecibo Observatory broke…
Astronauts head to launch site for SpaceX’s 2nd crew flight Four astronauts headed to Kennedy Space Center on Sunday for…
Feeding a galaxy’s nuclear black hole A galactic bar is the approximately linear structure of stars and gas that stretches…
Final dance of unequal black hole partners Solving the equations of general relativity for colliding black holes is no simple…
New research on imposter stars may improve astronomical data Quick flashes of light in the night sky have been linked…
FAST helps reveal the origin of fast radio bursts Researchers from Beijing Normal University, Peking University and National Astronomical Observatories…
Supersonic winds, rocky rains forecasted on lava planet Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar…
New remote sensing technique could bring key planetary mineral into focus Planetary scientists from Brown University have developed a new…
Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three…
New evidence our neighborhood in space is stuffed with hydrogen Only the two Voyager spacecraft have ever been there, and…
Asteroid’s scars tell stories of its past By studying impact marks on the surface of asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA’s…
Impact craters reveal details of Titan’s dynamic surface weathering Scientists have used data from NASA’s Cassini mission to delve into…
Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed The gravitational force in the Universe under which it…
New survey finds that single burst of star formation created Milky Way’s central bulge Like most spiral galaxies, the Milky…
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft goes for early stow of asteroid sample NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is ready to perform an early stow on…
NASA, human lunar lander companies complete key Artemis milestone NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) Program recently checked off a key…
Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s…
New study details atmosphere on ‘hot Neptune’ 260 light years away that ‘shouldn’t exist’ A team led by an astronomer…
Supercomputers dig into first star fossils No one has yet found the first stars. Go to Source Author: Phys.org provides…
ALMA shows volcanic impact on Io’s atmosphere New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the…
Window opens for Virgin Galactic’s final round of testing The window for the final round of testing of Virgin Galactic’s…
Nokia to build moon’s first 4G cell network for NASA program Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to…
Touch-and-go: US spacecraft sampling asteroid for return After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles…
Two planets found orbiting a red dwarf Red dwarfs are the coolest kind of star. As such, they potentially allow…
Why scooping an asteroid sample is harder than it looks When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward the surface of Bennu…
New M92 stellar stream discovered A team of astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope discovered a new stellar stream emanating from…
Planetary scientist to fly aboard NASA-funded commercial space flight A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) planetary scientist has been chosen to…
NASA announces eight-nation space coalition under ‘Artemis Accords’ NASA announced on Tuesday that eight countries have signed an international agreement…
Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threat Russia is unlikely to participate in the Moon-orbiting station planned…
Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket The jig may be up for an “asteroid” that’s expected…
The legacy of of the Spitzer Space Telescope To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding…
A new look at sunspots NASA’s extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up—one of the…
Finding vaporized metal in the air of an exoplanet WASP-121b is an exoplanet located 850 light years from Earth, orbiting…
The black hole always chirps twice: Scientists find clues to decipher the shape of black holes A team of gravitational…
US Nobel winner’s 25-year odyssey to black hole at center of galaxy For US astronomer Andrea Ghez, who won this…
Revealing secret of lithium-rich stars by monitoring their heartbeats Lithium is an ancient element that is almost as old as…
The way forward to Mars The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The…
Radish seeds, meats and cheeses launched to space station A space station cargo ship rocketed into orbit Friday carrying a…
Astronomers reveal first direct image of Beta Pictoris c using new astronomy instrument The vast majority of planets near foreign…
