Astronomers Measure The Mass Of A Dormant Black Hole, Our Solar System’s Lost Protoplanet, And More Science Stories
It’s been an eventful week in science news. Astronauts on the ISS were briefly ordered to shelter in…
NASA Moves Roman Space Telescope Launch Up To August 30: A Billion-Galaxy Survey Arrives 8 Months Early
NASA has set August 30, 2026 as the launch date for its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope —…
The Moons of Uranus May Hold the Key to Finding Missing Planets
We have an idea of what the solar system’s past was like: It was violent and chaotic. However,…
NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System
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NASA Astronaut Shares Mesmerising Timelapse Of Crystals Growing In Microgravity
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a fascinating timelapse video showing the growth of crystals in microgravity, offering…
Different meteorites may have come from the same strange birthplace near Jupiter
Six families of carbon-rich space rocks have puzzled scientists for years. They look nothing alike. Some crumble at…
One of the sky’s rarest phenomena is back — How to see rare night-shining clouds this summer
Rare noctilucent clouds shine above the city of Kennewick in Washington State June 2. (Image credit: John Clement.)…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Strange Chemistry Beyond Our Solar System
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July…
How China is working to turn Saishiteng Mountain into the world’s largest astronomy base
Construction on the Tibetan plateau of some of the Earth’s most powerful optical telescopes is putting China on…
Scientists Discover Hidden Symmetry on Earth That Nobody Can Explain
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that balanced it out, performed evasive maneuvers,…
Scientists have made a huge discovery at the enormous black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. And they found something pointing right at it
Astronomers say they’ve finally seen, for the first time, evidence of a powerful wind blowing from the supermassive…
Tiny X-ray telescope could unlock the Moon’s hidden chemistry
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have used simulations to show that a small, newly developed X-ray telescope could…