Category: Science

Scientists are calling it the “cosmic joust.” Two extremely distant galaxies appear to be ramming into each other over and over again at speeds of over 1 million mph. The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy …

While the concept may seem otherworldly, advancements in space technology have made such projects more conceivable.

Perseverance captures a rare sight from the surface of the Red Planet. In the hours just before dawn, NASA‘s Perseverance rover adjusted its gaze toward the heavens and saw a brilliant point of light. That bright sparkle wasn’t a morning star beaming from distant space, but something more mysterious — Mars‘ shiest moon, Deimos. …

The company is weeks away from a landing attempt. A Japanese commercial spacecraft is zeroing in on its second attempt at a lunar landing, now flying laps around the moon. The company ispace entered lunar orbit more than a week ago, sending its Resilience lander soaring about 62 miles above the surface at …

Voyager 1 keeps on trucking. NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ability to talk to the aging spacecraft. Over a half-century, Voyager 1 has sprinted about 38,000 mph and become the farthest human-made object, crossing …

Why scientists are thrilled by what they saw on Titan. Scientists have had a hunch that a distant moon experiences weather like Earth’s, forming clouds that douse its craggy surface with rain. If that’s the case, it would make Titan the only other world in the solar system that has that in common with our home planet. …

Perseverance looked up at the right moment for a light show. NASA‘s Perseverance rover has captured an aurora in the night sky for the first time from the Martian ground. Scientists have known for two decades that Mars‘ skies have auroras, too, but these curtains of undulating light had only been detected in ultraviolet — …

A German radar station likely got the last look. Before a Soviet-era spacecraft intended for Venus crashed back to Earth over the weekend, German astronomers watched it tumble through space. As Kosmos 482 took its last laps, a German radar station spotted the uncrewed landing capsule passing over its antenna. The <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7327958537341476866" …

Scientists are puzzled by its dazzling afterglow. Astronomers have zoomed in on Jupiter‘s poles to get a better look at the gas giant planet’s auroras — 100 times brighter than the Northern Lights on Earth. These alien light shows are not only humongous compared to the ones people are used to seeing in our …

A space vortex plays hide-and-seek with sky surveys. A black hole skulking in the shadows 600 million light-years away in space gave itself away with a dazzling flash, the light of a star it had just gnashed and eaten. Using NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers …