On Thursday, May 23, the European Space Agency (ESA) and collaborators released a series of five images created by the revolutionary space telescope Euclid. The Euclid consortium previously published five images from the space telescope on November 7, 2023. Euclid has been labeled Europe’s “dark universe detective” because its wide field of view allows it… Read More »
Modern life relies on electricity and electrical devices, from cars to buses, from phones to laptops, to electrical systems in homes. Behind most of these devices is a type of energy storage device called a supercapacitor. My team of engineers is working on making these supercapacitors even better at storing energy by studying how they… Read More »
Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin due to mold growing in a Petri dish left while on vacation. In the 9th century, Chinese priests wanted to make an elixir of immortality; instead they discovered gunpowder. Our remarkable discovery took place on a rugged and remote coastline east… Read More »
One of the most common stereotypes about the human past is that men hunted and women gathered. This sexual division of labor, the story goes, provided the meat and plant foods people needed to survive. The description of our time as a species dependent solely on wild foods until 10,000 years ago, when humans began… Read More »
Astronomy has a bright future. The universe is revealed in minute detail with the current generation of large optical telescopes. close to the big bang. There is hope that mysteries will be solved dark matter And dark energy It will be resolved. Thousands outer planets has been discovered, and astronomers may be approaching the first… Read More »
As the space around Earth becomes increasingly littered with man-made debris, scientists are stepping up efforts to preserve satellites in real time. The latest of these efforts are new algorithms being developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF) to automatically track and protect spacecraft from crashing into satellites. asteroids inside cislunar space — The… Read More »
One of the things I have enjoyed over the 22 years of writing the Night Sky column for Space.com is alerting readers to hoaxes or celestial lies that commonly circulate on the Internet. Although I have done my best to keep readers away from such misconceptions, I am still amazed that so many people accept… Read More »
NASA’s iconic Hubble observatory is still working on ideas that will keep it going for a long time, and maybe even longer; but these proposals may face uphill battles. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has been serviced five times by astronauts and is still in good condition. However, the telescope is aging and… Read More »
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. I was lucky enough to get a spectacular view of the northern lights from my own home this month, when the largest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades… Read More »
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that there are some. big stars They end their existence not with a bang but with a whimper and sink into a swamp. black hole Without the light and anger of a being, their own actions supernova. To understand why this matters, we need to start with a crash course… Read More »