Space

Astronomy has entered the age of gravitational waves. While there are plenty of differences between gravitational wave astronomy and typical waves of the electromagnetic spectrum, they share one similar feature: frequency. While we have detectors for a wide range...

Science & Exploration 29/04/2025 793 views 23 likes In brief The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home – a family we couldn’t have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one unlike all others...

Declassified images from U.S. military satellites are helping find forgotten mine fields in Cambodia.From the late 1960s almost until the end of the 1990s, a bloody war between communist groups and democracy defenders raged, with a few short breaks,...

Earthquakes may generate huge volumes of hydrogen within the planet by fracturing rocks that then react with water molecules....

Images of Mars never cease to amaze. This latest image of NASA’s Curiosity Rover captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the rover as a dark speck and the end of a long trail of tracks. It was rattling...

NASA continues to mark progress on plans to work with commercial and international partners as part of the Gateway program. The primary structure of HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) arrived at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, where it...

Humans have always been explorers, venturing by land and sea into unknown and uncharted places on Earth and, more recently, in space. Early adventurers often navigated by the Sun and stars, creating maps that made it easier for others...

Science & Exploration 25/04/2025 38 views 0 likesThe Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES), ESA’s state-of-the-art timekeeping facility, has been successfully installed on the International Space Station, marking the start of a new chapter in space-based precision science.  ...

Much of the "content" released during "Star Wars"' Disney era has had the homogeneity of a production line, with scenes from "Ahsoka", "The Mandalorian", and even "The Acolyte" often seeming interchangeable. For better or worse, this was definitely not...

Adults with peanut allergy reduced their risk of reactions by eating a little peanut protein every day as part...