With his plan accepted, Léna began organizing experiments for the historic flight. Flying at nearly 17 km above the Earth’s […]
Category: astronomy
The world’s biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun’s surface
We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see. Wherever two fluids slide past […]
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Also: Cyborg diving suits for cockroaches, why sleepy sperm whales blow bubbles, Betelgeuse’s companion star. The Boy of Cerro El […]
We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere
If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind. Most of the gas […]
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star’s death
It’s unclear how the planet avoided its star’s bloated red giant stage. WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case […]
The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior. Earth is the only planet […]
Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR
Skip to content Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR Walkthrough experience includes visits to stars, exoplanets, and […]
Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect
The second issue was that in some observations, there were no periodic signals at all. Because we have enough archival […]
A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
“I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we’re even going to try this.” The Link spacecraft […]
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated
Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey in […]