Jessica Wade spends her time at Imperial College London in a laboratory filled with spectrometers, oscilloscopes, and men. She writes Wikipedia biographies at night about women researchers like herself who…
RHESSI is anticipated to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere in April, nearly 21 years after its launch. From 2002 until its decommissioning in 2018, RHESSI observed solar flares and coronal mass…
It has been a while since a credible “end of the world” theory emerged from the internet. This most recent prophecy of the end of the world appears to have…
Astronomers look back and future. Many S&T readers fondly recall the 2017 total solar eclipse. This year and next will have annular and total solar eclipses. Four solar eclipses in…
The sun’s heat and luminosity are the result of a process known as nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion occurs when the sun’s core (the center of the sun) crushes atoms together…
NASA telescopes witnessed a gigantic black hole ripping apart a nearby star. It was the fifth-closest black hole to destroy a star. Astronomers observed a sharp increase in high-energy X-ray…
This week, a defunct NASA satellite is expected to descend to Earth, but experts tracking the spacecraft believe it poses little risk. NASA and the Department of Defense have announced…
Space exploration’s goal is to find life or evidence of life on other planets. Over 5000 planets have been discovered in our Milky Way galaxy, but most appear to be…
Observers of the aurora bore witness to a brief appearance of a light baby blue spiral approximating a galaxy amidst the green bands of light dancing across the Alaskan sky.…
On April 20, the first astronomical event of the year will occur. Ningaloo will be a hybrid solar eclipse. This year will see a total of four eclipses, including two…