University of New South Wales Those looking forward to a day when science’s Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little…
Category: Space
Kepler-1649c: Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Hides in Plain Sight
From NASA April 16, 2020 A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around…
Very Large Telescope sees star dance around supermassive black hole, proves Einstein right
From phys.org by ESO Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of…
An update on Comet ATLAS…it is breaking apart
Guest post by Paul Dorian This photograph was taken in Switzerland a few days and it shows three fragments of Comet ATLAS confirming what other amateur astronomers have witnessed…the breaking…
Doubts about basic assumption for the universe
Study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard questions a fundamental principle of cosmology University of Bonn No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless…
Comet ATLAS continues to brighten, now with an impressive tail, and it could put on quite a dazzling show next month
Guest post by Paul Dorian, “According to my observations, the tail of Comet ATLAS is 1.2 degrees long,” reports Gerald Rhemann who recorded this image on Friday, March 27th from…
Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Sized Black Hole
From NASA March 31, 2020 Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as “intermediate-mass,” which betrayed…
Astronaut urine to build moon bases
FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers…
Chandra Data Tests ‘Theory of Everything’
March 19, 2020 One of the biggest ideas in physics is the possibility that all known forces, particles, and interactions can be connected in one framework. String theory is arguably…
Massive Beauty
From NASA NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at the southern hemisphere of Jupiter on Feb. 17, 2020, during the spacecraft’s most recent close approach to the giant planet. Not…
Science takes time, even in a lab moving 17,500 miles per hour
From NASA March 13, 2020 The International Space Station, a microgravity laboratory orbiting Earth at 17,500 miles per hour, has hosted a variety of scientific research for nearly 20 years.…
Observed: An occultation of a brown dwarf by another
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) The finding was by chance, when the scientists were working on the results from the first light of one of the four telescopes of…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet
From NASA March 4, 2020 NASA’s Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Full image and caption NASA’s…
#BeAnAstronaut: NASA Seeks Applicants to Explore Moon, Mars
From NASA NASA’s new class of astronauts – the first to graduate since the agency announced its Artemis program – appear on stage during their graduation ceremony at the agency’s…
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the universe
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre…
A first: New “helper” satellite extends life of failing geosynchronous IntelSat 901
DULLES, Va. – Feb. 26, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, have successfully completed the first docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-1…
Digging into the far side of the moon: Chang’E-4 probes 40 meters into lunar surface
Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters The subsurface stratigraphy seen by Yutu-2 radar on the farside of the moon. Credit: CLEP/CRAS/NAOC A little over a year after landing, China’s spacecraft Chang’E-4…
18-hour year planet on edge of destruction
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type.…
Findings From NASA’s Juno Update Jupiter Water Mystery
From NASA. NASA’s Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate…
How the tiniest particles in our universe saved us from complete annihilation
Recently discovered ripples of spacetime called gravitational waves could contain evidence to prove the theory that life survived the Big Bang because of a phase transition that allowed neutrino particles…
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