Science

Mind-Blowing Milky Way Portrait Captures More Than 3 Billion Stars

A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of…

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Most Detailed Radio Image of Milky Way Yet Reveals Supernova Ghosts

A combined image from Askap and Parkes shows bubbly looking supernova remnants that hadn't been spotted before. R. Kothes (NRC)…

2 years ago

Light Pollution Is Making Stars Disappear From the Night Sky

The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out…

2 years ago

Astronomers Detect Signal From Extraordinarily Distant Galaxy

One of the dishes of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune in Maharashtra, India.  National Centre for Radio Astrophysics…

2 years ago

See a Mind-Blowing Portrait of Over 3 Billion Stars in Our Galaxy

A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of…

2 years ago

Inside NASA’s Plan to One-Up the James Webb Space Telescope

This is NASA's preliminary design of the Luvoir Telescope. The agency's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory could possibly look like a…

2 years ago

Scientists Find Rare 17-Pound Meteorite, an Unusually Heavy Space Rock

This hefty meteorite found in Antarctica weighs in at nearly 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms). Maria Valdes Antarctica is a wonderland…

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Surprise magma chamber found under Mediterranean Sea volcano near popular tourist destination

A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea…

2 years ago

Light Pollution Is Making Stars Disappear at an Alarming Rate

The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out…

2 years ago

Watch a Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Grab and Throw, Just Like People Can

Atlas is getting more sophisticated in how it interacts with objects and its environment. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Boston…

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