Brussels Airlines launches special flight for rare 2026 solar eclipse
Brussels Airlines is giving astronomy enthusiasts a unique chance to observe the partial solar eclipse on 12 August…
Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas
In 2010, archaeologist David Stuart and colleagues ran into a painted chamber at Xultun, a Maya relic in…
Most Ambitious Sky Survey Ever Begins with Hungarian Scientists on the Team
High atop a mountain in Chile, under some of the world’s clearest, darkest skies, a new era of…
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a striking image of Centaurus A
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a galaxy. NASA has recently unveiled an image taken by the…
Astronomers Detect the Hidden Process That May Trigger Star Birth
The illustration shows ambipolar diffusion in a collapsing prestellar core. Neutral molecules decouple from the magnetic field and…
The Universe Was Barely Born When These Giant Black Holes Appeared
A quasar emits exceptional amounts of energy generated by matter falling into a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA…
Isotopic imprints of late molecular cloud infall in the outer Solar System
Schiller, M., Bizzarro, M. & Fernandes, V. A. Isotopic evolution of the protoplanetary disk and the building blocks…
A cosmic gateway near Earth may connect us to other distant worlds
The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never…
Advancing the search for technosignatures
Schwieterman, E. W. et al. Astrobiology 18, 663–708 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar Wright, J. T. et al.…
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Launches with Record Camera
The cosmos is about to get a close-up of appropriately epic proportions. Resting on a Chilean mountaintop, the…
FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellite
TOKYO — The Federal Communications Commission has given its approval for a satellite that will test the ability…
Non-gravitational acceleration indicative of cometary activity of near-Earth object
Orbital fit The orbital solution was estimated through a least-squares fit52 to the available optical and radar astrometry.…