Astronomy
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused ...
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be ...
Hubble has captured the most detailed image yet of a ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way ...
An unknown group of planets found hiding in the dust
“Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by ...
Traveling to the sun: Why won’t Parker Solar Probe melt?
This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than ...
VLT makes most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside ...
Using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s VLT , a team led by Thomas Collett from the University of Portsmouth in ...
A laser from a space ant
An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system ...
May the forest be with you: GEDI moves toward launch ...
A first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world’s forests in 3-D is moving toward an earlier launch to the ...
Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for ...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected helium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-107b. This is ...
Hubble catches a colossal cluster
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a massive galaxy cluster glowing brightly in the darkness. Despite its beauty, this ...
From car engines to exoplanets
Chemical models developed to help limit the emission of pollutants by car engines are being used to study the ...
