Space/Planetary Science

Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of the centre of the galaxy in which we live, the Milky Way. The…

Credit: Image by NASA/MIT/TESS AMES, Iowa - NASA's planet-hunting TESS Mission keeps giving astronomers new realities to examine and explain. Case in point: astronomers using the tools of asteroseismology - the observations and…

To measure the Moon's brightness, NIST scientists sent a telescope as high as planes can flyCredit: NASA photo/Ken Ulbrich Last week, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National…

Analysis of images from Mars rovers shows insect- and reptile-like fossils, creaturesCredit: Analysis by Dr. William Romoser ATHENS, Ohio (Nov. 19, 2019) - As scientists scramble to determine whether there is life on Mars, Ohio…

Astronomers uncover the relic at the heart of Supernova 1987A that has been hidden for over 30 yearsCredit: Cardiff University The leftovers from a spectacular supernova that revolutionised our understanding of how stars end their…

Credit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the highest-performance cameras ever composed of sensors that count single photons, or particles of light. With more than…

Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based…

The mystery of the Hubble constantCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltetch/ESA-Planck Collaboration/SINC Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make…

Credit: Vanderbilt University Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. In recent years, many researchers have made strides in…