The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory lies under some of the darkest and clearest skies in the world, in Chile’s Atacama Desert. But now, light pollution from a new
The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory lies under some of the darkest and clearest skies in the world, in Chile’s Atacama Desert. But now, light pollution from a new
Graphical Abstract — Bar-Ilan University A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may disrupt how carbon and nutrients are recycled in the
Searching for extraterrestrial life and supporting human life in space are traditionally regarded as separate challenges. However, there are significant benefits to an approach that treats them as different aspects
WASHINGTON — A new deep-space radar site in Western Australia, built under a trilateral partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, has demonstrated it can track objects
NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected evidence of what could be an Intermediate Mass Black Hole eating a star. It’s in a galaxy 450 million
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover continues to beam home incredible sights from the Red Planet surface. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released an enhanced-color mosaic of 96 separate images
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. NGC 1309 is situated about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. This stunning
(NewsNation) — NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Crew-11 mission Friday in its second attempt. The initial launch was scrubbed Thursday due to weather conditions. The mission launched the Crew-11 to
While NASA maintains the lead in human space exploration, other nations have already begun their own projects. Take the China National Space Agency, for example, with their CLEP, or Chinese
The image shows the possible positions of the Wow! Signal in relation to the galactic Hi column density from HI4PI (HI4PI Collaboration et al. 2016). Gray boxes indicate the earlier