An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “cosmic dawn”—the...
It has been believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, must be large...
Astronomers snap first confirmed direct image of a brown dwarf orbiting a star in the Hyades Cluster
A team of astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories in Hawaiʻi—W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope—have photographed a brown dwarf...
Ordinary everyday ice, like the ice produced by a fridge, is known to scientists as hexagonal ice (ice Ih), and...
The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest regions of a cold molecular cloud measured to date has been announced...
Curtin University-led research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant...
Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. It is clear that it must exist, because without...
Perseverance is a NASA autonomous vehicle that arrived at the Jezero Crater (the bed of an ancient, now dried-up lake...
Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons—it’s bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it’s one of the...
All kinds of exoplanets orbit very close to their star. Some look like the Earth, others like Jupiter. Very few,...
Magnetic reconnection is a universal process that changes magnetic topology and converts magnetic energy to plasma kinetic energy. Spatially resolved...
People around the world are seeing fewer and fewer stars in the night sky. The change in star visibility can...
