Gravitational waves are notoriously difficult to detect. Although modern optical astronomy has been around for centuries, gravitational wave astronomy has only been around since 2015. Even now our ab… [+3448 chars]
Three Russian cosmonauts on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) emerged from their Soyuz capsule on Friday wearing the colours of the Ukraine flag. The manned mission to the ISS is th… [+2445 chars]
Dart (double asteroid redirection test) aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday. According to the BBC, the mission will be carried out on… [+1048 chars]
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Gravitational waves are notoriously difficult to detect. Although modern optical astronomy has been around for centuries, gravitational wave astronomy has only been around since 2015. Even now our ab… [+3448 chars]
If you were born after 1972, you’ve never seen something that was for a brief time in the late 1960s and early 1970s a relatively frequent event: a crewed lunar landing. Apollo 17 was the last such m… [+1195 chars]
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381st Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be… [+6681 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope doesn’t orbit the Earth as the Hubble Space Telescope does. Instead, it orbits the sun in a position called the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, where it can rem… [+2085 chars]
Skip to content NASA was able to accurately predict its impact location and time. On March 11, astronomers at NASA were able to pinpoint almost exactly where and when a new asteroid would hit Earth… [+4064 chars]
Eugene Parker, University of Chicago Prof. Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics, is remembered for seminal contributions to the understanding of our sun and solar system Credit: Photo by John Zich/… [+9683 chars]
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. Most of the rocky planets and satellit… [+5570 chars]
Albert Einstein didnt plan to donate his brain to science. In fact, he requested his entire body be cremated and the ashes scattered secretly. But when the theoretical physicist died on April 18, 195… [+14947 chars]
