Staff members give the media a tour of the newly built 3,200 megapixel LSST camera, the largest camera ever built, at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, on Thursday, April 11, 2024. After twenty years of work, the device will soon be packed up and shipped to a mountaintop in Chile to … Read more
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made a remarkable discovery: a rare mini-Neptune exoplanet in a binary star system. This planet, designated TOI 4633 c, is notable not only for its unique features, but also for its position within the habitable zone of its galaxy. The discovery has sparked interest and raised questions about … Read more
Rather than dying dramatically in a massive supernova explosion, some large stars may die quietly and without fanfare. This could explain the mysterious and sudden disappearance of certain stars from the night sky that astronomers have noticed over the years, according to a new article in the journal Physical Assessment Letters. These massive stars can … Read more
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Planet Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years, anyway, and a lot has changed in that time. What started as a ball of molten, swirling magma eventually cooled and developed a few small tectonic plates; About a few billion years later, the planet was covered in various supercontinent formations and teeming with life. But … Read more
Harlan Gough holds a recently collected tiger beetle on a chain. Laurens Reeves hide caption change caption Laurens Reeves Harlan Gough holds a recently collected tiger beetle on a chain. Laurens Reeves “A lot of things fly at night,” says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set … Read more
May 10, 2024, Brandenburg, Falkenhagen: Light green and light reddish auroras glow in the night … [+] sky in the Märkisch-Oderland district in eastern Brandenburg. The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) are produced by a cloud of electrically charged particles from a solar storm in the Earth’s atmosphere. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance … Read more
A team led by glaciologists from UC Irvine used satellite radar data to reconstruct the impact of warm ocean water rising in a grounding zone extending several kilometers beneath the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The research, the subject of an article published in PNAS, will help climate modelers derive more accurate projections of sea … Read more
Enlarge / Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on the eve of the crew’s first launch attempt earlier this month. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images The first crewed test flight of Boeing’s long-delayed Starliner spacecraft will not take off Saturday as planned, and could face a longer delay as engineers evaluate a persistent leak of helium … Read more
WASHINGTON – As SpaceX prepares for its next Starship test flight, the company is also working to scale up facilities in Texas to build and launch these vehicles. SpaceX completed a wet dress rehearsal on May 20 of the vehicle that will perform its fourth integrated test flight, filling the vehicle with propellants and going … Read more