Finding oxygen in an exoplanet’s atmosphere is a clue that life may be at work. On Earth, photosynthetic organisms absorb...
Month: October 2022
Astronomers believe that it can take 10 million years or more to build a planet like the Earth. But studies...
The National Science Foundation announced last week that it won’t rebuild or replace the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico,...
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). Originally...
Seventy-five years is a long time for a technology to mature. In the case of supersonic flight, the technology has...
Over 60% of the launches in 2020 resulted in one or more rocket parts making an uncontrolled reentry into the...
Asteroid hunters have become increasingly good at their job. The discipline, which took a back seat in the early days...
In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the successor to the Kepler Space Telescope that revolutionized...
Astronomers Think They Have a Warning Sign for When Massive Stars are About to Explode as Supernovae
Red supergiant stars are explosions waiting to happen. They are in the last stage of their life, red and swollen...
DART’s results are in and they exceed all expectations. The Moon might just be a big chunk of the Earth...
