NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope mission ends after 16 years of space exploration
During its work, Spitzer made many surprising discoveries.
The space-time being dragged around a rapidly-rotating exotic star
The effect is a consequence of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
Telescope captured best-ever image of the Sun’s surface
Preeminent telescope to play a critical role in a better understanding of sun, space weather.
Large amounts of oxygen detected in the ancient star’s atmosphere
Very unusual chemical composition in ancient star’s atmosphere.
Australian meteor crater is the oldest known crater on Earth
It’s 200 million years older than the previously oldest known crater.
Scientists are making oxygen from moon dust
ESA’s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.
A class of strange objects detected near our home galaxy’s black hole
These objects are unresolved.
Sound of the solar wind from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
First whispers of the solar wind’s birth.
Saturn’s flashing auroras making astronomers scratch their head
Final images from Cassini spacecraft.
Astronomers traced the journey of one of life’s building blocks
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the...