The world’s largest telescope is edging closer to completion

Posted on 05/03/2021 by Engadget

This week, the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab began work on the sixth of seven primary mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). On March 1st, the lab started heating its one-of-a-kind glass furnace to a temp...

One of the first known black holes is more massive than once thought

Posted on 20/02/2021 by Engadget

Astronomers might need to adjust their expectations for black holes. According to the New York Times, an international research team has determined that Cygnus X-1, one of the first discovered black holes, is considerably more massive than once thoug...

What it takes to get a job building robotic Mars explorers for NASA

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Engadget

After a thankfully uneventful seven-month journey, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is set to safely reach the Red Planet and insert itself into orbit on Thursday ahead of deploying the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter prototype that it’s been t...

Astronomers confirm the most distant object in the Solar System

Posted on 14/02/2021 by Engadget

The most distant Solar System object, Farout, has lost its crown after just two years. As Inverse reports, astronomers have confirmed that the planetoid Farfarout is now the farthest known Solar System object. It's currently 132AU, or about 12.3...

Hubble researchers find a gaggle of small black holes

Posted on 13/02/2021 by Engadget

Larger black holes may be the usual attention-getters, but the smaller ones may be at least as important. A team using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a concentration of small black holes in the NGC 6397 globular star cluster (pictured abov...

Scientists may have found the background ripples of the universe

Posted on 19/01/2021 by Engadget

Scientists may have identified the gravitational waves that make up some of the universe’s background, not just those coming from unusual events like black hole collisions. New Atlas reports that the NANOGrav research team has discovered a “strong si...

Scientists find a strange signal coming from our closest neighboring star

Posted on 21/12/2020 by Engadget

Astronomers have encountered a mystery surprisingly close to Earth. The Guardian and Scientific American have learned that Breakthrough Listen astronomers using the Parkes telescope in Australia discovered a strange radio signal coming from Proxima C...

Strange exoplanet discovery makes a case for the elusive ‘Planet Nine’

Posted on 14/12/2020 by Engadget

Scientists have long theorized about a “Planet Nine” in the Solar System with a strange orbit, and there’s now more evidence to suggest it’s possible. Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have determined that a jovian exoplanet 336 light-year...

Supernovae may generate life-giving carbon atoms faster than thought

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Engadget

Michigan State University scientists have found that exploding stars create life-giving carbon atoms much faster than they thought. However, that discovery has created another mystery that could upend current theories of element creation and help fue...

Voyager probes detect a new form of cosmic ray burst from the Sun

Posted on 05/12/2020 by Engadget

The Voyager probes are still contributing to science over 40 years later and billions of miles from home. Researchers have detected a new form of cosmic ray electron burst using instruments aboard Voyager 1 and 2. Coronal mass ejections from the Sun...

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