Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary
Hotan, A. W. et al. Australian square kilometre array pathfinder: I. System description. Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust. 38,…
Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada | Meteors
A meteor over Massachusetts during the weekend ultimately prompted reports of booms and sightings across New England into…
How to see the double-planet encounter this week as Venus and Jupiter meet in the evening sky
Venus and Jupiter finally meet this month. Following a beautiful approach throughout May 2026, Venus catches up with…
Hubble captures M88 on a perilous journey that could change it forever
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Unastella, a South Korean rocket startup that launched from home, raises $24M
As SpaceX counts down to what could be the largest IPO in history, the race to build the…
Mysterious signals keep coming from space. We have found their ‘Rosetta stone’
A pair of stars spiralling around each other. That’s the origin of a new source of repeating radio…
Bolted to Pioneer 10 is a plaque showing two humans and a cosmic map back to Earth, while the spacecraft itself is now a silent ghost ship drifting toward Aldebaran, a star it will not pass for another two million years.
Bolted to the side of Pioneer 10 is a gold-anodised aluminium plaque, about 152 by 229 millimetres, engraved…
Scientists Find Cosmic ‘Rosetta Stone’ To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space : ScienceAlert
Just a few years ago, a strange signal was received from the plane of the Milky Way. It…
Gravity Waves From Super Typhoon Sinlaku
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Took 100,000th Image of Red Planet
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona In 2005, NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) from Cape Canaveral. Its mission…
After a crippled seven-year journey Japan’s Hayabusa probe limped home in 2010 and burned up in the sky over Australia, but not before releasing the first asteroid samples ever returned to Earth.
Japan’s Hayabusa probe returned to Earth on 13 June 2010, breaking apart in a bright streak over the…
Lasers at the Lunar Poles Could Help Astronauts Navigate
A team of scientists is exploring ways to use dark craters at the lunar poles as sites for…