The orange is light from carbon-based molecules; the dark red filaments are cold hydrogen shielding the new stars. The picture is data, not…
Swift’s trick was speed: it swung its own cameras onto a burst in seconds and told every other telescope where to look. Its data will…
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole feeds far more slowly than others of its kind. Knowing what the surrounding gas is made of is a step…
No equipment needed, but timing decides everything. A bright moon hides the faint meteors for most of the night; the dark window opens in…
A Falcon 9 carried the crew from Cape Canaveral after a fuel system fault delayed the mission. The six-month research programme is named…
USA 32, launched in 1988, fragmented on 13 September in low Earth orbit. Spaceweather.com suggests a pressurised tank or battery. There is…
A photonic processor on a glass chip was launched to 510km in June last year. Sunlight and radiation overwhelmed its detectors, so the team…
Ashraful Islam and Md Tanvir Ibne Alam of Truman State University built Scutaris, an orbital safety platform, and beat entries from 36…
Researchers in Berlin rebuilt the conditions of the ocean beneath Enceladus in a lab and put deep-sea vent bacteria into it. They lived on…
Thirteen test flights, nearly half ending in some kind of explosion, all deliberately kept on a trajectory that would bring the vehicle…
Ten instruments, a four-month cruise to L1, and a trick that images a boundary 18 billion kilometres away without going there. Why the…
Montréal astronomers confirmed a super-Earth on a 23-day orbit receiving about as much light as Earth. It never transits, so 2.8 Earth…
