Degree of linear polarization as a function of phase angle measured in the R filter for 7 distant comets and for the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (Z. Gray et al. 2025).
The (Origin of) Life Marker Chip (LMCOOL) — University of Twente Is life possible – or has it ever been possible – on other planets? The (Origin of) Life Marker
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Left: The HWO OS1 ConOps uses a reference star for wavefront sensing to expedite the wavefront control sequence. Center: After the dark hole is created, the observatory is slewed to
(Houston) — Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, will be Honorary Chair of World Space Week 2026, it was announced today by World Space Week Association. Led by Bruno,
In February 2023, a United States Air Force fighter jet shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon flying at about 60,000-65,000 feet (18-20 km) altitude in sovereign U.S. airspace. After the
Scatter plot of Laromatic/LIR as a function of LIR for the AGNdominated (red circles) and AGN-SF-composite galaxies (red triangles). The gray circles show the relationship for the SFG sample. —
Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the
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