Cosmic Breakthrough: Accurate New Map of All the Matter in the Universe Released
Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe. Sometimes to know what the matter is, you have to…
Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe. Sometimes to know what the matter is, you have to…
Mission managers have given the “go” for two astronauts to exit the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, February 2, 2023, and conduct a seven-hour…
A rapidly migrating Jupiter mechanism offers crucial new insights into the early evolution of the Solar System. An international team of scientists led by Jian…
Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope uncover a one-in-ten-billion binary star system. Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile,…
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, an enabling capability…
On January 15, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) experienced a communications delay within the science instrument, causing its…
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest explosions in the cosmos, emitting intense gamma rays for brief periods of time. These bursts are categorized as either short…
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the…
A new set of four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission. NASA astronauts…
Exploring the universe’s earliest galaxies with NASA’s new space telescope. A team of astronomers, headed by Haojing Yan at the University of Missouri, have used…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On November 1, 2023, Lucy will get a close-up view of a small…
A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is the most recent Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. The Tarantula Nebula…
What is behind dark energy — and what connects it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg…
Where do moons come from? Well, they actually can come from a lot of different places. Our Moon, for example, we believe formed in a…
Other than Earth, no planet in the solar system has been so thoroughly or long examined as Mars. For more than two decades now NASA’s…
Honoring our fallen heroes … Working on a nuclear option for space travel … And the next crewed mission to the space station … A…
NOIRLab’s Globe at Night educational program reveals how increasing light pollution is robbing us of the night sky. A startling analysis from Globe at Night…
Scientists at RIT lead a study utilizing data collected by LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) on NASA’s New Horizons mission. Researchers at Rochester Institute of…