How Lunar Strike builds a Moon from NASA data, ESA imagery and photogrammetry
Cognition’s creative director Brian Pope doesn’t lead with worldbuilding or even technology, whether that’s the use of Unreal…
Almost all the gold on Earth — every wedding ring, every coin, every gram in every bank vault — was forged in the collision of dead stars billions of years ago, in events so violent that a single one can produce hundreds of Earth-masses of gold, and the heavy elements were then scattered across the galaxy before our sun was even born
On 17 August 2017, two neutron stars in a galaxy called NGC 4993, about 130 million light-years from…
Catching Up With Perseverance on Mars
Episode description: NASA’s robotic explorers are looking for signs of ancient life on Mars. In its five…
Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury
Most people would say Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that…
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the sky into a weapon, and the worst damage may have come after the impact itself was already over
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate…
Scientists locate source of mysterious radio signals after 20 year search: A vampire star and its victim
The clashing magnetic fields of a white dwarf star and its neighboring red dwarf star are the source…
Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms
A sonic boom heard throughout the northeastern United States last week was caused by a meteor, NASA confirmed…
ASX 200 LIVE: Shares gain; Megaport to raise $827m rights issue; Superloop lifts guidance; GDP slows at faster pace than expected. Follow live.
The sharemarket rebounded on Wednesday, led by a rally in energy and mining stocks, as data showed Australia’s…
Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman employed as a human computer at Harvard for a few cents an hour
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by…
New Zealand testing of Elon Musk’s Starshield ‘significant’, US expert says
SpaceX says its Starshield system uses “high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely”. Photo:…
Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft
After successfully rendezvousing with near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in June 2018 and sending a sampled cache of rocks back…