Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way — the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — may have had a third companion, astronomers believe. New research describes how another ‘luminous’ galaxy was likely engulfed by the Large Magellanic Cloud some three to five billion years ago.
An unusual infrared emission from the neutron star RX J0806.4-4123 detected by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could indicate new features never before seen: one possibility is that there is a disk of material surrounding the neutron star; another is that there is an energetic wind coming off RX J0806.4-4123 and slamming into gas in interstellar space the neutron star is plowing through.
A mission to deflect asteroids that might threaten Earth has begun its final design and assembly phase, according to a news release.
A strange pair of space rocks twirling around each other as they orbit the sun has helped scientists pinpoint when our solar system developed its current formation.
A human journey to Mars, at first glance, offers an inexhaustible amount of complexities.
During NASA’s Cassini mission’s final distant encounter with Saturn’s giant moon Titan, the spacecraft captured the enigmatic moon’s north polar landscape of lakes and seas, which are filled with liquid methane and ethane.
Amazon.com is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the country’s giant telescopes, which could prove fertile ground for the company to develop new artificial intelligence tools.
This was SpaceX’s fourth launch of its brand-new ‘Block 5’ booster and the 16th Falcon 9 launch since the beginning of 2018.
Twice size of Earth, Wolf 503b orbits star every six days
This is so weird.
