In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). Originally...
Astronomy
The National Science Foundation announced last week that it won’t rebuild or replace the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico,...
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...
In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the successor to the Kepler Space Telescope that revolutionized...
Asteroid hunters have become increasingly good at their job. The discipline, which took a back seat in the early days...
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...
How would Earth appear to alien astronomers? What would their observations tell them about Earth if they were searching the...
Here is an idea that likely never crossed the mind of most space enthusiasts – a gas emitted from broccoli...
DART’s results are in and they exceed all expectations. The Moon might just be a big chunk of the Earth...
