I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy ... says Perez, who is now locally active in astronomical public outreach. Yet despite local clear skies, she says that professional ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — Physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Every astronomical object, regardless of its nature, now unequivocally belongs to a specific constellation. While the Moon and planets, which move steadily against ...

His images have been featured in Astronomy Magazine, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy Now & The Sky at Night. He has also authored articles on astrophotography for these magazines. Peach has also been a ...

Fermi’s paradox relies on an idea called the cosmological principle, which is a general attitude in astronomy and cosmology that we do not occupy a privileged position in the universe.

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter. By ...

The launch of Nature Astronomy now enables much expanded coverage of the modern discipline: the journal welcomes research across astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science, with the aim of ...

In astronomy, an occultation occurs when one celestial ... is due to explode in a massive event known as a nova any day now. Scientists are not exactly sure when this will occur but suspect ...

Any night now, the astrophysicists tell us, a new star will appear in the night sky—about as bright as the North Star—the result of a cosmic explosion in a distant constellation millennia ago.

It was mere decades ago that the idea of space tourism — not just for astronauts and scientific research but for recreation — was the stuff of science fiction. Today, space travel for the ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back. Using a ...