An unmanned NASA spacecraft, Cassini, is poised to plunge into the gap between Saturn and its rings, a pioneering journey that could offer an unprecedented view of the sixth planet from the Sun. Cassini probe finds vast void between Saturn’s rings – Phys.Org
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California has come up with a remarkable plan to tax rocket launches from its coast. Specifically, their tax payments will be determined by how often they fly the 62 miles (100 km) from a California launchpad to the very edge of space while transporting goods or tourists. After 62 miles, the companies are deemed to […]
The universe is big and, while we may be able to explore it in depth in the future, we can’t yet see a lot of it up-close. Scientists make inferences about an exoplanet’s finer details from larger observations, using what they know about how space works, but we can never know for sure what that […]
Step aside, Star-Lord – there’s another superhero in the universe, and it’s “guarding” far more galaxies than you can even fathom. In honor of the release of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” in movie theaters today (May 5), scientists with the Hubble Space Telescope have released gorgeous new images of all […]
In November, Stephen Hawking and his bulging computer brain gave humanity what we thought was an intimidating deadline for finding a new planet to call home: 1,000 years. Ten centuries is a blip in the grand arc of the universe, but in human terms it was the apocalyptic equivalent of getting a few weeks’ notice […]
Derrick and platform of drilling gas wells in Marcellus Shale – Pennsylvania. Credit: Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Scientists and policymakers use measurements like global warming potential to compare how varying greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, contribute to climate change. Yet, despite its widespread use, global warming potential fails to provide an accurate look […]
The annual, week-long Eta Aquarid meteor shower is predicted to reach its maximum on Saturday morning (May 6). The bright moon will be a few days past first quarter (a waxing gibbous, 81 percent illuminated), and it will set just prior to 4 a.m. local daylight time, leaving only about an hour of reasonably […]
May 5 (UPI) — To the naked eye, space can sometimes seem like a lonely place. But as rendered by the Hubble Space Telescope, the cosmos appears crowded. A new image captured by Hubble showcases Abell 370, a massive galaxy cluster featuring several hundred galaxies. The assortment of galaxies is organized by the pull of […]
The European XFEL, the crème de la crème of X-ray radiation lasers currently existent in the world, is up and running and has successfully completed its first lasing. Scientists at the German research center DESY, in Hamburg, fired the European XFEL on Thursday, May 4, to witness its first X-ray beam, thus reaching “the last […]
