Watching Dawn and Dusk on a Distant Hot Jupiter
What would it be like to stand at the boundary between night and day on a planet locked…
T. Rex Dinosaur Could Become Most Expensive Fossil Ever
French officials rushed two firefighting planes to the Paris region Sunday, after a fire erupted south of the…
25 Year Old’s Big Dream: Manufacturing In Space
‘ISRO is planning to build a Bharatiya Antariksh Station by 2030. So, our goal is to create a…
Decades-Old Dark Matter Explanation Fails Its Most Direct Test Yet
A decades-old dark matter claim is facing a decisive new challenge. The result clears the way for future…
Listening for the Universe’s Faintest Whispers, a Billion Supernovae at Once
How do you listen for something quieter than almost anything else in nature, a signal built from ghostly…
One Light-Day Away: Voyager’s Epic Voyage
Buzz Lightyear’s ‘to infinity and beyond’ in Toy Story was meant as an impossible boast.Voyager, however, has given…
New research revealed in tonight’s episode of The Sky at Night strengthens the case for life on Mars
We’ve had a quick first-look at the latest episode of The Sky at Night, due to be broadcast…
Young crescent moon to meet Venus in evening twilight | Astronomy
Two celestial beauties line up on Friday when the young crescent moon meets brilliant Venus in the evening…
A single teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about four billion tonnes on Earth — roughly the mass of a mountain — because the star has crushed the equivalent of the Sun into a sphere the width of a city
PSR B1919+21, the first neutron star ever detected, was picked up by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in Cambridge in…
Perseid Meteor Shower Returns This Week Under An ‘Earthshine’ Moon
Topline Here comes a classic crescent moon-and-meteors week. Tuesday, July 14, sees a new moon — when our…
Infrared Chip Boosts Gas and Heat Detection
Infrared cameras can be used to spot useful information that our eyes can’t see, such as gases escaping…
Japanese Astronomical Society ex-president Shigeru Ida joins China’s Westlake University
The universe teems with planets, yet their origins and evolution remain among science’s most enduring mysteries.Theoretical astrophysicist Shigeru…