New results from physicists in Bochum have challenged the Standard Model of Cosmology. “Since time immemorial people have been looking at the sky and trying…
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NASA is developing a nuclear reactor (shown in this artist’s rendition) that could power a human settlement on the moon. Credit: NASA It might sound…
EDRS-C is the second node of the European Data Relay System (EDRS). It is the first dedicated EDRS satellite as well as the first flight…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International…
Artist’s impression of CHEOPS in orbit above Earth. In this view the satellite’s telescope cover is closed. Credit: ESA / ATG medialab While the planet…
The dusty spiral galaxy NGC 4414. Neeleman et al. report the observation of another galaxy disk that existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big…
The planetary system around star HR8799 is remarkably similar to our Solar System. A research team led by astronomers from the University of Groningen and…
A still image from a simulation of the formation of dark matter structures from the early universe until today. Gravity makes dark matter clump into…
Earth’s natural satellite taken by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during his Beyond mission on the International Space Station on 15 August 2019. Credit: ESA/NASA–L. Parmitano…
This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to…
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 3895 as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This swirling galaxy is far away in the Ursa Major constellation. Credit:…
This is an image of a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus. Credit: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray) Active galactic…
As seen in this artist’s concept, the SHERLOC instrument is located on the end of the robotic arm of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
Artist’s impression of two black holes colliding Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav A new study led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Centre of…
Artist’s impression of Orion over the Moon. Orion is NASA’s next spacecraft to send humans into space. It is designed to send astronauts further into…
70% of all cataloged objects are in low-Earth orbit (LEO), which extends to 2000 km above the Earth’s surface. To observe the Earth, spacecraft must…
The FRB leaves its host galaxy as a bright burst of radio waves. Credit: ICRAR Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a…
Artist’s conception illustrates the differences in phenomena resulting from an “ordinary” core-collapse supernova explosion, an explosion creating a gamma-ray burst, and one creating a Fast…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at Launch Complex…
NASA astronaut Robert Behnken will launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission – the crew flight test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Credit:…