The Milky Way, home to our sun and billions of other stars, merged with another smaller galaxy in a colossal cosmic collision roughly 10 billion years ago, scientists said on Monday based on data from the Gaia space observatory.
Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up most of the mass of the universe, has proved notoriously hard to detect. But scientists have now proposed a surprising new sensor: human flesh.
Mission planners at NASA and ESA have determined the orbital path of the upcoming lunar Gateway.
Source: Live Science The vast voids between galaxies can stretch millions of light-years across and may appear empty. But these spaces actually contain more matter than the galaxies themselves. “If you took a cubic meter, there would be less than one atom in it,” Michael Shull, an astronomer at the University of Colorado Boulder, told
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, when “one small step for man” became “one giant leap for mankind.”
India is trying to become the fourth country to complete a controlled soft landing on the moon.
Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new Washington State University research.
The South Atlantic Anomaly’s high radiation causes ISS computers to crash and telescopes shut down, dubbing it the “Bermuda Triangle of space.”
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted a circumplanetary disk around a still-forming gaseous exoplanet called PDS 70c.
There are some obvious similarities.
