A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid blasts off on Monday.After NASA deliberately crushes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid the following week, it´ll be up to European Space Agency's Hera mission to investigate the "crime scene" and discover the secrets of these potentially devastating space rocks.NASA's Dual Asteroid Redirection...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainAn international research group has discovered that the 1st continents were not stable and also were recycled inside the Earth, in the mantle.The research, released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is significant because it provides essential clues on how planets formed."The rocks in the core...
Artist's illustration of a small Saturn-like planet discovered in the system LkCa 15. The planet resides within dense rings of dust and gas that surround a bright yellow star. Material accumulates in a clump and arc-shape, about 60 degrees away from the planet. Note: illustration is not to scale.Credit: M.Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard...
Charged gases escapes from Comet Leonard forming a tail, December 2021. This image took top prize in the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Credit: Gerald Rhemann, Royal Museums Greenwich, Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022This majestic image is the winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.First place...
The United States is returning to the Moon 60 years after JFK's famous speech.On September 12, 1962, United States president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put one man on the Moon by the decade's end.It was the height of the Cold War, and also America needed a huge victory...
Researchers observed bright flares of X-ray emissions. Image credit: Dan WilkinsResearchers at Stanford University have actually located a strange pattern while seeing the X-rays from the supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy 800 million light-yrs away. The black hole, it seems, is spewing out these rays into the universe around it.Dan...
“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina NebulaAstronomers' beliefs are The famed James Webb SpaceTelescope, released 8 months back and orbiting the sun a million miles from Earth, has begun bringing up several questions for astronomers as its striking images flood in.Unsurprisingly, the telescope has offered some intriguing and exciting observations of the very distant universe....
An artist's illustration of radiation residue from the Big Bang distorted by dark matter 12 billion years ago.For the first time, dark matter from twelve billion years ago has been detected.A group of scientists from Nagoya College in Japan has collaborated to investigate the dark matter surrounding galaxies as they appeared twelve billion years...
A shower of Perseid meteors lights up the sky in 2009 in this NASA time-lapse image. Credit: NASA/JPLTypically bringing one of the most stunning yearly meteor showers visible in Earth's night sky, typically providing 50-100 "shooting stars" per hour at its peak, the Perseids are going to peak on Aug. 12 and 13. There...
Image of the Cartwheel Galaxy and its companion galaxies is a composite from Jame Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). MIRI data is colored red while NIRCam data is colored blue, orange, and yellow.Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIThe space telescope's powerful infrared gaze offers a new sight of just how the galaxy...
