astronomy

NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years — including the first woman and Black man to voyage into deep space. Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut who holds the record for the longest…
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Emirati astronaut Hazzaa Al-Mansoori has become the first Arab to be appointed to the key role of increment lead for an International Space Station expedition, reported Emirates News Agency on Saturday. Since the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft…
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A young, ultrabright Jupiter may have desiccated its now hellish moon Io. The planet’s bygone brilliance could have also vaporized water on Europa and Ganymede, planetary scientist Carver Bierson reported March 17 at the Lunar and Planetary…
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A neutron star pileup may have emitted two different kinds of cosmic signals: ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves and a brief blip of energy called a fast radio burst. One of the three detectors that make up the…
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A rocky planet that circles a small star nearly 40 light-years from Earth is hot and has little or no atmosphere, a new study suggests. The finding raises questions about the possibility of atmospheres on the other orbs in the planetary…
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17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known, in part, for discovering Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and deducing the shape of the planet’s rings. But by…
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Astronomers have observed the brightest flash of light ever seen, from an event that occurred 2.4 billion light years from Earth and was likely triggered by the formation of a black hole. The burst of gamma-rays, the most intense form of…
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The spacecraft that Nasa deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbi, the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, Nasa officials announced on…
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Astronomers on Thursday said they have spotted a hot bubble of gas spinning clockwise around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy at "mind-blowing" speeds. The detection of the bubble, which only survived for a few hours, is hoped…
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In the Atacama Desert in Chile, one of the most powerful astronomical instruments in the world, the ELT is a giant optical telescope that produces images 15 times clearer than the best current instruments. The Extremely Large Telescope…
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