How to escape a black hole: Simulations provide new clues about powerful plasma jets0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2019
Interplay of twisting magnetic field, ‘negative-energy’ particles
Interplay of twisting magnetic field, ‘negative-energy’ particles
At the largest conference of astronomers in the United States, the biggest astronomy mission under development was virtually a no-show.
A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton suggests that dark energy may have varied over cosmic time, as reported in our latest press release.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of 24 planned orbits.
Planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets, so it was natural to ask if smaller moons could orbit larger ones
A few years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope did something amazing: over the course of 841 orbits and hundreds of exposures, it imaged a tiny region of space in the constellation of Fornax, peeling back the layers of time by 13 billion years, to just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
One of the scientists involved in the study pointed out that although the number of space rocks striking earth is increasing, the probability of an asteroid strike wiping out mankind is extremely low.
Planetary researchers believe that our Moon was created more than 4.4 billion years ago in a catastrophic collision between proto-Earth and a hypothetical planet-sized body known as Theia. According to new research, our planet received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other life-essential elements from that planetary collision.
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong’s historic step, robots from China, India, Israel, the US and elsewhere are heading back.
The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China’s Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. This week, China announced its plans to follow up with three more lunar missions, laying the groundwork for a lunar base.