The search for life beyond Earth dutifully continues. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, as well as the European Space Agency‘s XMM-Newton, are contributing some new research to the hunt — and hoping to lay the groundwork for future projects. The researchers are using Chandra to study radiation emitted from nearby stars to establish whether or […]
Illustration of a space telescope orbiting earth, with the sun in the background. A central component of NASA’s science work is to help answer whether life has emerged elsewhere in the cosmos. So far, NASA has been looking tentatively in our own backyard — the solar system — for signs that Earth may be just […]
When a star is born or dies, or when any other very energetic phenomenon occurs in the universe, it emits X-rays, which are high-energy light particles that aren’t visible to the naked eye. These X-rays are the same kind that doctors use to take pictures of broken bones inside the body. But instead of looking […]
A new telescope billed as the world’s highest astronomical site is officially open for business. The Japanese University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, or TAO, which was first conceptualized 26 years ago to study the evolution of galaxies and exoplanets, is perched on top of a tall mountain in the Chilean Andes at 5,640 meters (18,500 […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW)- With the countdown on to the solar eclipse on Monday, people in Wichita are wondering how they can view it if they can’t travel out of town to see it. We went to a local observatory to get some answers. The Lake Afton Public Observatory won’t be open for any events on […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — BREC’s Highland Road Park Observatory is preparing for the partial solar eclipse on April 8. A partial solar eclipse happens about twice a year, where the moon, sun and the Earth are not aligned in a perfect straight line, and the moon only casts only the outer parts of its […]
By Candelaria Grimberg BUENOS AIRES(Reuters) – Femicides in Argentina, already at a record level last year, have increased further in the first two months of 2024, a report from a local observatory on Friday showed, with more than one killing per day underscoring the deadly threat to women. The country saw 61 misogynistic murders of […]
The forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will never leave Earth itself, but the highly detailed, “big picture” view of the cosmos it will offer scientists may very well kick-start a new era of space exploration. The solar system is filled with billions of small rocky bodies and icy objects, many of which formed around 4.5 […]
As our universe poofs out in every direction like an indestructible balloon — thanks to dark energy, a force fully hidden to the human eye — Dillon Brout is an astrophysicist trying to make sense of it all. Brout wishes to unveil the strange correlation that exists between the invisible and visible universe, understand how […]
The first Indian solar observatory has successfully reached its intended orbit, the country’s Space Research Organisation announced Saturday, as India seeks to cement its status as an emerging space superpower. The Aditya-L1 spacecraft safely arrived at Lagrange Point L1, the position in space with unobstructed views of the sun located about 1.5 million kilometers (almost […]
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more catalysmic cosmic events — like colliding neutron stars and black holes — thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough. Since the observatory was turned back on in May after three years of upgrades, including adding new quantum squeezing technology, it can probe a larger […]