World’s first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers

The world’s first wooden satellite made from wood developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging…

Starless and forever alone: More ‘rogue’ planets discovered

A NASA handout illustration shows an ice-encrusted, Earth-mass planet. Scientists estimate there could be trillions of…

What is Manhattanhenge and when can you see it?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon…

Study reveals planet is actually an astronomical illusion caused by stellar activity

Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b—often compared to the fictional “Vulcan”…

SpaceX launch marks 40th for the Space Coast

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX sent up the 40th rocket launch from the Space Coast on…

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX unscathed after searing pass of sun

Both these images from a camera called StowCam aboard OSIRIS-APEX show the same view taken six…

New approach enhances accelerator’s capability to uncover clues from supernovae in lunar dust

A Wien filter with a maximum voltage of ±60 kV and a maximum magnetic field of…

Detecting ‘Hawking radiation’ from black holes using today’s telescopes

The HESS. II five-telescope gamma-ray detector in Namibia. Credit: Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1974…

Mystery of ‘slow’ solar wind unveiled by Solar Orbiter mission

ESA Solar Orbiter. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) Scientists have come a step closer to identifying…

Scientists report unified framework for diverse aurorae across planets

Variable Sun–planet magnetosphere interactions. a, Polar projections of the typical terrestrial auroral morphology from IMAGE FUV/WIC…