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To survive on the moon, humans need a lot of resources. Transporting them to the earth's satellite by spaceship would be extremely expensive. There is a much cheaper and sustainable solution: special manufacturing plants that can extract and process raw materials directly on site.
May 6th, 2021
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The map, along with proposed paths for robotic rovers, provides new details on a scientifically important region of the moon's south pole.
May 4th, 2021
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The Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.
Apr 30th, 2021
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A new study by astrophysicists shows that high-energy light from small galaxies may have played a key role in the early evolution of the Universe. The research gives insight into how the Universe became reionized, a problem that astronomers have been trying to solve for years.
Apr 30th, 2021
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Astrophysicists have developed 'Octo-Tiger', a breakthrough astrophysics code to more efficiently model stellar collisions. The code simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to parallelise the code to achieve superior speeds.
Apr 29th, 2021
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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft detects a surprising number of tiny and bright flares in the gas atmosphere of our star.
Apr 28th, 2021
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Astronomers have discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within dense clusters of stars, known as globular clusters. Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars, the most compact star known, that spin up to 700 times per second.
Apr 28th, 2021
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This is the first direct evidence of OH in the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System. It shows not only that astronomers can detect this molecule in exoplanet atmospheres, but also that they can begin to understand the detailed chemistry of this planetary population.
Apr 27th, 2021
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A high-energy neutrino that flung out from a star, ripped apart by a black hole, reveals something about the cosmic sources of these mysterious particles.
Apr 27th, 2021
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The evolving periodicity of the brightness of certain types of stars can now be described mathematically.
Apr 26th, 2021
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The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction.
Apr 23rd, 2021
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A NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.
Apr 23rd, 2021
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Astrophysicists suggest dark matter could be detected by measuring the effect it has on the temperature of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.
Apr 22nd, 2021
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The highlight of the new chart is a wake of stars, stirred up by a small galaxy set to collide with the Milky Way. The map could also offer a new test of dark matter theories.
Apr 22nd, 2021
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A new method may succeed in explaining the high-energy plasma outflows ejected by many black holes.
Apr 22nd, 2021
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Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This discovery could be a major step in pinpointing exactly how some giant stars explode.
Apr 21st, 2021
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Astronomers observed a record-setting flare from the star Proxima Centauri - a burst of energy roughly 100 times more powerful than any similar event seen from Earth's sun.
Apr 21st, 2021
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Researchers are suggesting a new way to use them to measure the expansion of the universe directly. They propose a method called intensity correlation speckles to measure the difference between the redshift - in which light stretches as it travels through an expanding universe, causing its wavelength to elongate - in two paths of light from the same quasar.
Apr 21st, 2021
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