It’s 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. What’s so special about that, you ask? Well, the bolt is an astonishing 515 miles (829 kilometers) long. Using archival
It’s 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. What’s so special about that, you ask? Well, the bolt is an astonishing 515 miles (829 kilometers) long. Using archival
SPHEREx 3.0/4.26/4.7 μm H2O/CO2/CO gas coma from left to right respectively. The object is undetected in H2O and CO, with 2-pixel radius preliminary conservative upper limits of 0.45 and 0.99
SpaceX is gearing up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket on Monday after a technical issue on the launchpad forced a 24-hour delay.
About 5 billion light-years away from where you’re sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by
Exoplanet Program Analysis Group – ExoPAG 32 Date/Time: 19 August 2025 10AM – 5:30PM EDT NOTE: New registration is required for everyone planning to attend the August 19th meeting. Previous
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our Solar System because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area around
WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace has signed an agreement to study potential launches of its Alpha rocket from a new Japanese commercial spaceport. To continue reading this article: Register now and
Space Safety 06/08/2025 502 views 21 likes ESA’s Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both
Streamlined schematic of the experimental setup, simulated atmospheric compositions and conditions, UV bombardment process, measurements, and experimental outcomes. Two laboratory hazes were produced (the initial conditions varying only in the
Sensitivity maps for the four CHEOPS visits of HD 95338. The first row represents the best-fit box depth (i.e. moon radius) in the ∆T0–W space. The 3σ lower limit of