SpaceX will launch a NASA mission to study the history of the universe

Posted on 05/02/2021 by Engadget

One of NASA’s more important science missions now has a ride. The agency has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch its SPHEREx astrophysics project. The mission won’t blast off using a Falcon 9 rocket until June 2024 at the earliest, but it promises to...

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...

NASA smallsat concepts will study galaxy evolution and exoplanets

Posted on 09/01/2021 by Engadget

NASA has chosen to investigate more smallsat and balloon mission concepts for exploring the cosmos, and this time the goals are particularly ambitious. The first smallsat, Aspera, will study galaxy evolution by monitoring the ultraviolet light from h...

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...

Solar System ‘superhighway’ could speed up space travel

Posted on 12/12/2020 by Engadget

Future deep space missions might not take as long as you’d think. Researchers have discovered a Solar System “superhighway” network of routes that would let probes and other spacecraft travel outward at quicker pace. Asteroids near Jupiter, for examp...

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...

Scientists find neutrinos from star fusion for the first time

Posted on 26/11/2020 by Engadget

Researchers have effectively confirmed one of the most important theories in star physics. NBC News reports that a team at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics has detected neutrinos traced back to star fusion for the first time. The sc...

Hitting the Books: Why we’ll never see the edge of the universe

Posted on 08/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Death comes for us all, even on the cosmological scale. Our universe started off with a bang, and a rather large one at that, but how it will end remains a mystery. Will entropic effects cause it to cool and sputter out like a guttering flame or will...

Astronomers may have spotted light from colliding black holes

Posted on 28/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Black hole collisions tend not to produce light by their very nature — you may catch gravitational waves, but that’s about it. However, scientists might have just found one of those rare instances where a collision was visible. A team using May 2019...

How to guesstimate the number of alien civilizations in a galaxy

Posted on 26/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The question of whether we are alone in the universe has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. It’s answer, one way or the other, could fundamentally alter our understanding of life, evolution, science, and even theology. Even the discovery of a s...

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