Space

Got your own smartphone with you on a starry night watching the sky through your new telescope? Good! Now you can start observing ultra-high energy cosmic rays. How? A new research conducted by the…

The surface of Venus can't be seen from orbit in visible light due to its hot, dense and cloudy atmosphere. Instead, radar has been used by spacecraft to penetrate the clouds and map out the surface…

Yelena Serova who became the first female Russian cosmonaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) in September, is adjusting very fast to life in space and she's now behaving like a…

Image: NASA By Monica Grady, The Open University As every good marketing manager knows, value for money is a major driver for the success of a product. Being a bargain is not usually a feature of…

A recent model says it provides the first characterization of the progenitor for a hydrogen-deficient supernova. Their simulation predicts that a bright hot star, which is the binary companion to an…

Credit: Niall Carson/PA By Saskia Vermeylen, Lancaster University Whether you’re into mining, energy or tourism, there are lots of reasons to explore space. Some “pioneers” even believe humanity’s…

An artist's impression of a galactic protocluster forming in the early universe. Credit: European Southern Observatory, CC BY By Nick Seymour, Curtin University Clusters of galaxies have back-stories…

On April 23rd, 2014, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a red dwarf star - 10,000 times more powerful than the…

Astronomers have used the APEX telescope to probe a huge galaxy cluster that is forming in the early Universe and revealed that much of the star formation taking place is not only hidden by dust,…

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Our view of other solar systems just got a little more familiar, with the discovery of a planet 25,000 light-years away that resembles our own Uranus. Astronomers have discovered…