Set on a rocky outcrop in southern Siberia, Chagyrskaya Cave might not look like much. But for one family of Neanderthals, it was home. For the first time, researchers have identified a set of closely related Neanderthals: a father and his teenage …
The Orionids are considered to be one of the most reliable meteor showers after the Geminids and Perseids, and are known to produce dozens of meteors per hour, making this year’s shower an excellent opportunity for some late-night skywatching.
On the left is a Hubble image of many faraway galaxies against the dark background of. What you’re looking at is evidence of a massive galaxy merger happening 11.5 billion light-years away.
Astronomers are “in awe” of the high-energy explosion, probably caused by a giant star’s death. Will Sullivan. October 21, 2022 11:25 a.m.. Bright rings formed by X-rays from a gamma-ray burst scattered by cosmic The afterglow of the gamma-ray burst as …
Friday, October 21. The Orionid meteor shower peaks today; early risers with clear skies can expect to see some 15 to 18 meteors per hour in the hours leading up to sunrise. The shower’s radiant sits near Betelgeuse, the bright red star that serves as …
Last month, NASA slammed a spacecraft into the heart of a nearby asteroid, resetting its orbit and conducting the agency’s first planetary defense mission. Now researchers at Stanford and MIT have developed a tool that lays the groundwork for a new, …
More than 2,100 years ago, Greek astronomer Hipparchus mapped out the stars — and for a long time, this had been considered humanity’s earliest attempt to assign numerical coordinates to stellar bodies. But despite its fame, the treatise was only …
From the statement itself, “The solicitation does not include rebuilding the 305-meter telescope or operational support for current scientific infrastructure, such as the 12-meter radio telescope or Lidar facility.” Scientists have …
Historians have found what appears to be a piece of an ancient star catalog in a folio from the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, shown here. Peter Malik. Around 130 BC, the great Greek astronomer …
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