Astronomy

Although space appears to be empty, it is actually a dynamic environment populated by near-invisible matter and dominated by forces, particularly magnetic fields. Magnetospheres are…

It’s been called “the moon that shouldn’t be there” by astronomers, who discovered a new moon orbiting Neptune: Hippocamp, a 34-kilometer-wide chunk of rock. Hippocamp…

Magnetars are strange objects that are gigantic, spinning neutron stars with some of the strongest magnetic fields known, capable of emitting brief bursts of radio…

The fast growth of the commercial space industry in recent years has prompted early-stage investors to examine entirely different sorts of businesses than they did…

SpaceX’s success is founded on good engineering and well-executed operations leveraging current technologies. It is also a private company, so it does not have to…

Despite the unanticipated hurdles that COVID-19 thrown in the way of Rocket Lab’s LA and New Zealand operations, CEO Peter Beck has had an interesting…

Images from NASA’s June Spacecraft have provided oceanographers with the raw materials for a new study that will describe the rich turbulence at Jupiter’s poles…

The universe encompasses all of space and time, as well as its contents, which include planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and…

Scientists believe that the structure of the Universe, which we see as galaxies and clusters of galaxies, is the result of microscopic energy fluctuations that…

A black hole isn’t just empty space. Rather, it is a large amount of matter packed into a very small area – imagine a star…

HD 24496 is a binary star system in the Taurus equatorial constellation. It is a Star that is not part of the Taurus constellation outline…

Astronomers have discovered three Jupiter-like exoplanets that are on the verge of being ‘swallowed up’ by their host stars. The discovery sheds new light on…