5 Min Read NASA Uses Mineralogical Marker to Understand Ancient Martian Climate This composite image looking toward the higher regions of Mount Sharp was taken on September 9, 2015, by…
Observations of “Little Red Dot” ancient galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope could answer the question: which comes first, the black hole or its galaxy? The shocking answer could…
Open star clusters are prevalent stellar structures in the Milky Way. Astronomers think their could be 100,000 of them. But they’re not all the same: some are binary clusters, and…
In December 1972, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent 75 hours on the lunar surface during Apollo 17. They drove a rover, conducted three spacewalks and collected samples across the…
WARSAW, Poland — The Italian-Dutch company Revolv Space has announced that French in-orbit services provider Infinite Orbits has selected its Solar Array Drive Assemblies (SADAs), the devices used to manage…
AMSTERDAM — A senior German military official said Europe needs a coordinated approach to military space operations and proposed the creation of a European Space Component Command hosted by Germany…
The Horsehead Nebula cuts a dark silhouette against glowing clouds in the constellation Orion.
The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) detector network has a new trick up its sleeve to improve the instruments’ sensitivity to gravitational waves: it’s called Astrophysical Calibration and it plays a role similar…
In December 2019, astronomers detected a one hour brightening of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a classic gravitational microlensing event. These occur when a compact object bends a…
Physicists have thought for decades that microscopic black holes can theoretically emerge not from exploding stars but from delicate “critical states” in which space and time organise themselves into a…
