Tag: space

Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in ...

Streaming out of the sun at a million miles an hour, the solar wind—a blistering plasma of electrons, protons, and ...

The moon is interesting because there are valuable resources people want, like the ice on the poles. But even though ...

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

Nine engines, 50,000 liters of fuel, 7 metric tons of thrust, and a velocity of nearly 8 kilometers a second ...

Years ago, Christopher Kyba was skeptical about astronomy data collected by citizen scientists—after all, it relies on people making naked-eye ...

Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and ...

Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they find of ...

When a gravitational wave passes through Earth, it causes space itself to stretch in one direction and compress in the ...

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