1+ week, 4+ day ago   (348+ words) New research suggests that we might have missed something very important in our understanding of how the Moon formed. Despite its importance and relative proximity, scientists are still not sure how the Moon actually formed in the first place. But…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (662+ words) NASA’s newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos like never before. SpaceX launched the $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope shortly after daybreak aboard a triple-the-fire-power Falcon Heavy…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (924+ words) Nasa has named its latest flagship space telescope after the American scientist Nancy Grace Roman. Roman’s contributions to astrophysics should have made her famous, yet many people will never have heard of her. For decades, astronomers have been spoiled with…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (494+ words) Eclipses occur in pairs because the sun, moon, and Earth align so precisely that one masks the other. The moon is next in line to pull a vanishing act. Having missed out on this month’s total solar eclipse, skywatchers across…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (265+ words) An influx of thousands of new satellites entering Earth's orbit threatens to severely hamper astronomers' ability to study the universe, research from the European Southern Observatory suggests. "Each of these satellites, when it crosses a telescope's field of view, leaves…...