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Light sails were once a thing of science fiction, evolving through several variations over the past 40 years. Today, science fiction becomes reality. Advances in laser technology and new ultra-strong, ultra-lightweight materials open up…

Researchers have used drones and artificial intelligence (AI) to locate a freshly fallen meteorite in the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia.The new method of locating meteorites developed by a team at Curtin University could…

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) 'Reach for the Stars' astrophotography competition is back for its second year and invites people in Longford interested in photography and astronomy to submit their images. The…

Panama is the latest nation to officially recognize the rights of nature. After a year of debate in the country's National Assembly, President Laurentino Cortizo signed legislation that recognizes the Panamanian ecosystem as "a unique,…

Representative image. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)The materials that formed Earth may have been developed far back in the early solar system and later brought in during the solar system's turbulent history, a study suggests.Earth is thought to have…

Tokyo: A new study by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) has suggested that these asteroid materials could have formed very far away in the early solar system and then been transported…

The study also looked at the physical and chemical conditions of outer (representative) main belt asteroids.Tokyo: A new study by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) has…

Our solar system is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began gravitationally condensing around 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin and form into a spinning…

Wednesday March 16Whether you rise early or late today, there is a tempting target in the north: the variable star Delta (δ) Cephei in Cepheus the King. This bright star lies about 2.5° east of Zeta Cephei, which marks the lower right…

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) 'Reach for the Stars' astrophotography competition is back for its second year and invites Offaly people interested in photography and astronomy to submit their…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have recently glimpsed the distant future of Earth. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently discovered…

Planetary debris, including some moon-sized objects, may hint at a rocky exoplanet in a stellar zombie's habitable zone, according to a new study.The star in question is a white dwarf called WD1054-226, a cooling remnant of a star that has…

Dr Sophie Murray, Technical Officer at the Institute for Advanced Study Dublin, and Alberto Cañizares, PhD…

To new observers, the night sky appears as a monochromatic black and white scene. Although astronomy books and websites are full of objects revealing vivid reds, pinks, blues, and greens, looking at most of those same objects with a small…

Breadcrumb Links International Women's Day 2022 International Women's Day "I'm driven by challenges and I think I was born to do that." Publication date : March 08, 2022 • 5 days ago • 5 minute read…

Illustration of the New Horizons space probe in the Kuiper Belt. These icy bodies are the remnants of the formation of the planets. At the edge of the solar system is a region called the Kuiper Belt. beyond the orbit of Neptune, this ring…

For most, February 15 seemed like an ordinary day.We recognized Flag Day, the day the Canadian maple leaf flag was first raised in Ottawa in 1965. But things played out differently on the surface of the sun, with a huge explosion in the…

In our solar system, Jupiter is the largest planet we have, but what is the upper limit of planetary size?Jupiter may be the largest and most massive planet in the solar system, but adding more mass to it would only make it smaller. The…

It's been a tough week.The world has watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfold during a pandemic that…

There are many such challenges. Because existing satellites were never intended to be serviced, they lack the markings, called landmarks, that would make it easier for a robot to visually orient itself with the moving satellite. There are…

Fireballs Aotearoa wants you to go catch a shooting star.Or at least capture one on a camera. Fireballs Aotearoa is a collaborative effort of skywatchers, astronomers and amateur geologists from the University of Canterbury and the!--break-->…

(Inside Science) -- For a few nights more than 9,000 years ago, when many of our ancestors wore animal skins, the northern sky would have been bright with twinkling lights. Telling chemical isotopes in ancient ice cores suggest that one of…

Reykjavík is a large metropolis reduced to the size of a small city, ideal for a family city break. You'll find all the things important for adults - national museums, iconic churches, historic architecture - and also the things important…

Planting trillions of trees won't replace the 10 million hectares of forest ecosystems lost every year, but documenting them could…

What did Pioneer 10 and 11 do?Pioneer 10 started breaking records soon after its launch. As it headed for Jupiter, it became the first spacecraft to venture beyond Mars. Then, on July 15, 1972, the spacecraft entered the asteroid belt - a…

Hitchhiker's Guide to Mercury's Dynamic Magnetosphere: From MESSENGER to the Bepi-Colombo era Dr Gang Kai Poh Being the closest planet to the Sun and one of the few planets…

The Sun shone magnificent solar rays millions of miles into space earlier this month - an event ranked as the largest such burst ever photographed that also captures a full view of the solar disk. On February 15, the ESA/NASA solar orbiter…

Former astronaut Chris Hadfield, with nearly 5,000 known exoplanets to choose from, names Kepler-442b, 1,200 light-years from Earth, as "excellent" for the James Webb Space Telescope: An excellent planet for @NASAWebb to take a…

It's been a mixed few months for SpaceX's Starlink constellation. The company continues to ramp up deployments of internet service provider satellites, which with today's launch will push the number in orbit to nearly 2,000. But the…

Everybody goes to the moon Putting a rocket into orbit around the Earth is a technical feat, but it only takes half a day's journey. Fifty years after the last person was on Earth's nearest neighbor, 2022 will see a crowded list of lunar…

In our solar system, the Earth is the largest of the telluric planets; small rocky worlds. The next largest planet in size is Neptune, a gas giant four times the diameter of Earth. When we started finding exoplanets -…

NASA's James Webb Telescope is preparing to officially begin science operations later this summer. And scientists are already excited that it is starting to scan distant worlds for signs of life.There are plenty of places to look, of…

An engineer and photographer will share his experiences and photographic techniques gained while hunting for the Northern Lights at the upcoming meeting of the Nanaimo Astronomy Society. Jeremy Kuzub photographed the Northern…

Just over four light years away is Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to the Sun. And in August 2016, researchers announced that they had found a long-sought planet around Proxima Centauri, the smallest and closest component of this…

https://br.sputniknews.com/20220219/cientistas-descobrem-como-construir-espaconave-que-cruzara-o-sistema-solar-em-tempo-recorde-21487541.html Scientists discover how to build a spacecraft that crosses the solar system in record time…

The February calendar has many twos. There was 02-02-2022 and now 22-02-2022 - which some people call "Twosday". To mark this Duos Day, we bring you our list of things in the solar system that come in twos or pairs. 1. Binary…

Once thought of as artifacts that needed to be erased from a researcher's grasp, nearly a thousand strands at the center of the Milky Way galaxy now mark significant advances in astronomical research. strange strands About 25,000…

Sunday February 20Comet 19P/Borrelly, currently observed around magnitude 9.5 and slowly fading, appears to pass close to Uranus in the night sky today. Both are flowing west tonight after sunset, located in the southern part of Aries.…

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is huge, 120,000 light-years across its flat disc, and two million light-years across its huge halo, a cloud of stars surrounding the disc in a vaguely crushed spherical shape. But it wasn't…

Astronomers have discovered the first known system of quadruple asteroids. A team from Thailand and France has spotted a third moon orbiting main-belt asteroid Elektra, moving the object into the record books.Most asteroids are solitary…

What is the largest asteroid and comet considered a near-Earth object? What is their size? Doug Kaupa Council Bluffs, Iowa Doomsday impactors are a staple of modern science fiction. The most famous real-life example of an…

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For the first time, astronomers have found direct evidence of a dead star currently eating the remnants of its former planets, the debris accelerated to hellish speeds and temperatures before slamming into the star's…

On May 21, 2019, a ripple in the fabric of spacetime swept across Earth at the speed of light. These pass through us all the time, but this one was strong enough to noticeably distort space, at least for the detectors…

New Delhi: A giant comet, one of the largest ever detected, is traveling through our solar system at an alarming speed. The comet, called Bernardinelli-Bernstein, has a surface equivalent diameter of about 137 kilometers,!-->…

Just over 12 months ago, we sat in Woomera, outback Australia, waiting for a streak of light across the sky to witness that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had returned from its journey to retrieve a small piece of a near-Earth asteroid…

KEVIN SCHINDLER An international team of astronomers has discovered a pair of asteroids that separated from their parent body just 300 years ago. The pair is…

There are genuine behemoths that sail around the solar system.In 2021, astronomers identified a gargantuan comet - an ancient mass of ice, dust and rock - passing through our cosmic neighborhood. Luckily, it won't come within a billion…

Ronald Vargas is a world-leading soil scientist who has devoted more than 25 years to natural resource management with a particular focus on sustainable soil management. He is Secretary of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) at the Food and…

The sundial of Huesca pays tribute to the women who contributed to the development of astronomy Its unveiling marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Today, February 11, is the International Day of Women and Girls in…

monday 14 februaryThis month, skywatchers are treated to something special: a sneak peek beyond the lunar south pole. You are looking for Mount Clementine, officially known only as M5. It is one of the easiest features to see and spends…

Just over 12 months ago, we sat in Woomera, outback Australia, waiting for a streak of light across the sky to witness that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had returned from its journey to retrieve a small piece of a near-Earth asteroid…

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Astronomers have found evidence of a new planet circling Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun.The alien world is only a quarter of the mass of Earth and orbits extremely close to its parent star, one-tenth the distance between the…

See bigger. | Artist's concept of the furthest outgoing spacecraft from Earth, Traveler 1, launched in the late 1970s. The circles represent the orbits of the main outer planets of our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.…

At just over four light years away, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun in the entire Universe. We know it has one planet, called Proxima b, and there's decent evidence for a second, called Proxima c. A…

Asteroid pairs are not unheard of, but the latest case has left scientists wondering if the parent body was a larger asteroid or a dormant comet. An international team of astronomers has…

LEXINGTON, Kentucky (February 9, 2022) — Less than two months ago, NASA, in coordination with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, launched the James Webb Space Telescope - the largest telescope ever built - on its 1.6…

To understand how life came about, scientists study the chemistry of carbon and water. In the case of water, they track the various forms, or isotopes, of its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms through the history of the universe, like…

The universe is full of mysterious objects, and our own solar system is home to a bizarre selection that continues to baffle scientists. From space's Bermuda Triangle to a suspected "alien probe" - here are five weird space objects you…

For scientists, it's called Comet 2014 UN271/(Bernardinelli-Bernstein).But to ordinary people, it's a gargantuan megacomet that spans a jaw-dropping 137 kilometers wide, officially making it the largest comet ever measured.Think of a…

Astronomers have spotted the youngest pair of asteroids ever discovered in the solar system. Separated from their parental body barely 300 years ago, they possess properties that are difficult to explain due to their young…

Getty ImagesAsteroids are small rocky objects that orbit the SunThe youngest known pair of asteroids in the solar system have been identified by astronomers. The baby asteroids are believed to be 300 years old, ten times younger than…

Pluto and the introduction of dwarf planets Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a bit of a puzzle. For starters, not only is Pluto smaller than any other planet in the…

According to a new study, water molecules on Earth may have originated long before the planet was formed.Research has found that the water chemical signature of one of the oldest meteorites in the solar system matches those found on…

Have you ever felt like there just wasn't enough time in the day? Turns out you might be onto something. The Earth is spinning faster than it has in the last half century, which means our days are a bit shorter than we are used to. And…

An asteroid over a kilometer in diameter has just officially become the second known Trojan Earth asteroid - an asteroid that shares its orbit with Earth. Well, a little. Wait a second and I'll explain. The asteroid…

Researchers now have the best image yet of hundreds of strange magnetic filaments seen nowhere else thanks to a new telescopic image of unprecedented precision of the complicated center of our galaxy. Astronomers used 200 hours…

University communication Today This artist's concept depicts two celestial bodies crashing into each other, creating a disc of mostly molten, partially vaporized rock that…

An asteroid collides with Earth. Getty About 66 million years ago, a "planet killer" - a 10 kilometer wide asteroid - struck Earth. The Chicxulub impact caused a massive planetary-scale extinction, killing an…

Wetlands are among the most important ecosystems on the planet. They are a refuge for wildlife, they filter pollution and are important carbon reservoirs. But they are also one of the most threatened habitats on Earth. About 85% of…

winter targets Barnard's Loop Type: Supernova Remnant/Emission Nebula Constellation: Orion To see this very subtle target in the Orion molecular cloud complex, use the lowest possible power and an Hβ filter. You may need to nudge your…

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monday january 31Main-belt asteroid 44 Nysa is currently traversing the 45' wide open star cluster NGC 1647 in Taurus. You'll find this stunning sight just 3.5° northeast of Aldebaran, the 1st magnitude bright red eye of Taurus. Tonight,…

The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape filled with hundreds of open waste pits, water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated…

MeerKAT radio view of the central regions of the Milky Way, highlighted by bright red emissions surrounding the galaxy's central black hole. Image: I. Heywood, SARAO. Have you ever wondered what you could see if your eyes were sensitive…

The astronomical community was shocked in 1995 when the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star was discovered. Not just because of the discovery itself, but because the planet was what we now call a Hot Jupiter: Gas…

In 2021, there were plenty of big space stories in the news, including two lunar eclipses in May and November. Coincidentally, two more total lunar eclipses will occur in May and November 2022. We were also entertained by three…

the James Webb space The telescope, says Penn State exoplanetary astronomer Alexander Wolszczan, is built on a foundation of past data and future expectations — much of what the massive space telescope will reveal combines both what…

Using a new crater detection algorithm, which automatically counts impact craters visible from a high-resolution image, a team of planetary researchers from the United States, Australia, the Ivoire et de France analyzed the formation of…