Comet K2, one of the most distant 'active' comets ever discovered, is swinging past our planet this week as it makes its first ever journey from the outermost reaches of the solar system toward the s… [+8848 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Media caption, Watch Vega-C leave the launch pad at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana Europe has given a successful debut to its new Vega-C … [+4336 chars]
The largest supermoon of 2022 — July's full Buck Moon — rises above the eastern horizon tonight. It will make for a striking skywatching sight as "supermoons shine about 16% brighter and appear 6% … [+3542 chars]
In 2008, the mathematicians Mu-Tao Wang of Columbia University and Shing-Tung Yau, now a professor at Tsinghua University in China and an emeritus professor at Harvard University, advanced a definiti… [+5247 chars]
Nasa secretly leaked two surprising new pictures of our own solar system. The new pictures were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, Nasas new flagship equipment that could allow us to peer back… [+2086 chars]
Enlarge/ If a star (red trail) wanders too close to a black hole (left), it can be shredded, or spaghetified, by the intense gravity. Some of the stars matter swirls around the black hole, like water… [+5159 chars]
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The paradox startled scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) more than a dozen years ago. The more heat they beamed into a spherical tokamak, a m… [+4494 chars]
This week, NASA revealed for the first time five pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Together, these images—from the birth of stars to one of the deepest looks into the far reaches of s… [+3609 chars]
