One of the dishes of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune in Maharashtra, India. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Scientists have managed to do something we’d previously thought impossible…
A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…
This is NASA’s preliminary design of the Luvoir Telescope. The agency’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory could possibly look like a scaled-down version of this. NASA Just over a year ago,…
This hefty meteorite found in Antarctica weighs in at nearly 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms). Maria Valdes Antarctica is a wonderland for meteorite hunters. Dark rocks stand out against the pale,…
A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea near Santorini, Greece. A group of international researchers used a…
The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out of 10 Americans, and nearly a third of all humans,…
Atlas is getting more sophisticated in how it interacts with objects and its environment. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Boston Dynamics’ Atlas machines are aiming to be the humans of…
This is NASA’s preliminary design of the Luvoir Telescope. The agency’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory could possibly look like a scaled-down version of this. NASA Just over a year ago,…
The view of the Jan. 15, 2023 Falcon Heavy rocket launch from the International Space Station. NASA What does a rocket launch look like? It depends where you see it…
Space may be vast, but it definitely isn’t empty, especially around Earth. NASA An asteroid passed by closer to Earth this month than most large telecom satellites, and our telescopes…
