By Watching the Sun, Astronomers are Learning More about Exoplanets
Watching the Olympics recently and the amazing effort of the hammer throwers was a wonderful demonstration of the radial velocity method that astronomers use to detect exoplanets. As the hammer…
Coronal Loops-Digital Art Combination Captures Power of the Sun, Rendered by Andrew McCarthy
Our Sun is one of the most fascinating objects in the universe and photographing it with specialized equipment to capture its splendor and beauty has become increasingly more common around…
SpaceX launches back-to-back Falcon 9 rockets within 65 minutes and aces 2 landings days after a failed booster touchdown (video)
SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets in just over an hour early Saturday (Aug. 31) and nailed back-to-back booster landings just days after a recent failure.
Estimating the Basic Settings of the Universe
The Standard Model describes how the Universe has evolved at large scale. There are six numbers that define the model and a team of researchers have used them to build…
Rocket Lab’s Mars probes reach launch site ahead of 1st flight on Blue Origin New Glenn rocket (photos)
The twin ESCAPADE satellites have arrived in Florida for the highly anticipated inaugural flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn megarocket in October.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 126 —Danger! Rogue Planets!
On Episode 126 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Rosalba Perna about errant planets.
SpaceX resumes Falcon 9 launches after brief FAA grounding
SpaceX resumed launches of its Falcon 9 rocket early Aug. 31 after the Federal Aviation Administration ended a brief grounding of the vehicle. The post SpaceX resumes Falcon 9 launches…
Dark Matter Could Have Driven the Growth of Early Supermassive Black Holes
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps finding supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe. They’re in active galactic nuclei seen only 500,000 years after the Big Bang. This…
If Gravitons Exist, this Experiment Might Find Them
There are four fundamental forces in the Universe; strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravity. Quantum theory explains three of the four through the interaction of particles but science has yet to…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket can return to flight, FAA says
SpaceX can resume flying its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced this evening (Aug. 30), two days after a landing failure grounded the vehicle.