Splashdown! Following a Historic Moon Mission, NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth
After a record-breaking voyage that saw it travel more than 1.4 million miles on a course around the Moon and safely land back on Earth,…
Astronomy
A Group of Physicists Proposes Using LIGO to Find Enormous Extraterrestrial Spacecraft
A group of physicists from various American universities has worked together on a paper that explores the potential use of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory…
Tau Boötis – an F-type Main-sequence Star
Tau Boötis, Latinised from Boötis, is an F-type main-sequence star in the constellation Boötes, located approximately 51 light-years away. Tau Bootis is home to a…
Investigation of a Revolutionary Cosmic Explosion by NASA
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a burst of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy 1 billion light-years…
Search for Second-closest Supermassive Black Hole by Astrophysicists
Only a few of our universe’s voids are this close to our planet, and understanding them could be the key to astronomy’s future. Astronomers have…
Short Gamma-ray Bursts have been Tracked further into the Universe
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic explosions observed in distant galaxies in gamma-ray astronomy. Since the Big Bang, they have been the most energetic and…
Eccentric Orbiting Black Holes
Black holes are dense points in space that create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain point, not even light can escape the gravitational pull of…
Astronomers have Discovered and Confirmed the most Distant Known Galaxies
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered the earliest and most distant galaxies confirmed to date (JWST).…
In Order to Explore Mars and Other Planets, we Will use Space Helicopters
For the Mars Perseverance mission, NASA scientists decided to try something novel: in addition to sending a rover, they would also send up a small…
Middle Corona of the Sun is First Imaged in UV
A star’s corona is the outermost layer of its atmosphere. It is made of plasma. The Sun’s corona extends millions of kilometers into space above…
Antihelium Nuclei as Galactic Messengers
What causes galaxies to form, and what holds them together? Astronomers believe that dark matter is important. However, it has not yet been possible to…
Mars’s Whirlwind is Captured on Audio for the First Time by Researchers
ANI, December 14, Washington (US): The first functional microphone on the surface of Mars was installed in the rover Perseverance when it first touched down…
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