The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has introduced a newly developed lightweight spacesuit, the result of four years of intensive research and development. According to a report by state broadcaster CCTV, this spacesuit…
Over a span of more than 13 years and accumulating over 500 terabytes of data, the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy has now been completed. This project, the largest ever undertaken…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Mars wasn’t always the cold desert we see today. There’s increasing evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet’s surface, billions of years ago. And if there was water,…
The detection by the Perseverance rover of a previously unseen black and white striped rock on Mars came as a surprise to NASA scientists. It raises the question of whether this could be…
A recently published study posits that the black holes postulated by Einstein’s general theory of relativity may not be as featureless and structureless as previously thought. Alternatively, these cosmic entities may be constituted…
The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a larger number of black holes in the early universe than scientists had predicted, offering new perspectives on the formation of supermassive black holes. These giants, located…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major…
Recent research suggests that the boundaries of the Milky Way may be much broader than previously thought, to the point of already being in contact with its nearest galactic neighbor, Andromeda. This discovery,…
Maureen Cohen, The Open University Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to…
New research suggests that Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter and the solar system, suffered a devastating impact billions of years ago, which may have altered its internal structure and axis of rotation….