Full Flower and ETA Aquariid meteor showers dazzle 2023
This week, see the Full Flower Moon with what may be the finest eta Aquariid meteor shower in years. Earth travels through Halley’s Comet’s ice and dust from late April…
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 past 4,000 Starlink satellites 2023
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and 56 spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral, its fourth mission in less than a week, surpassing 4,000 Starlink broadband satellites in orbit. Falcon 9…
Partners Expand Space Station for Humanity 2023
The stakeholders of the International Space Station have committed to extending the operations of this unique platform in low Earth orbit, where humans have lived and conducted cutting-edge science and…
Radio Telescope Dark Photon Detection 2023
In recent years, physicists have developed an interest in the concept of ultralight dark matter, which proposes that dark matter is composed of bosons with extremely low masses. One such…
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 4 May: Messier 87 Galaxy Supermassive Black Hole 2023
The Event Horizon Telescope, a consortium of eight telescopes worldwide, caught the first picture of a supermassive black hole at the core of Messier 87 in 2017. Scientists call the…
Scientists say aliens may soon detect our cell phone signals 2023
A new study investigated whether extraterrestrial civilizations could discover humanity by detecting radio signals leaking from Earth’s mobile phone towers. The team simulated leakage from cell towers around the world…
NASA Telescopes Catch Bright Galaxy With Supermassive Black Hole 2023
NASA’s telescopes have acquired a breathtaking image of Centaurus A (Cen A), a bright galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth that contains a monstrous black hole. Long by 13,000 Light-Years…
NZ scientists produce 6000 SB variations to improve environmental resistance 2023
In an effort to combat climate change, the Bragato Research Institute in Marlborough has sequenced 6,000 genetic variants of New Zealand’s premier grape variety. In partnership with Plant & Food…
UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi meets “Destiny” for life support aboard International Space Station 2023
The UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, who is on the longest Arab space mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), had a life support maintenance appointment with the laboratory module…
Computer Science Is The Most Profitable College Major 2023
According to a recent analysis of how much college graduates earn, computer science is the most lucrative undergraduate major. Michael Itzkowitz, founder and CEO of the HEA group and former…