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Topic: Space (page 7)

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An astrophysicist on alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This artist impression shows HD 45166, a massive star recently discovered to have a powerful magnetic field of 43 000 gauss, the strongest magnetic field ever found in a massive star. (ESO/L. Calçada)

New magnetic type of star discovered

Rae Hodge
Pink menstrual cup against black background with stars (Getty Images/TatianaMagoyan)

Why menstrual cups in space matter

Rae Hodge
David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, testifies during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency" on Capitol Hill 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Whistleblower on the truth about UFOs

Chris Impey - The Conversation
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NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 1, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

An astrophysicist on 65 years of NASA

Stephen G. Alexander - The Conversation
At the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star. (ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al.)

New image hints how planets form

Nicole Karlis
Microbes in space, illustration (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Will we know we've found aliens?

Nicole Karlis
Artist's representation of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flying through precipitating electrons that can trigger X-ray auroras on the surface of Mercury. (Thibaut Roger/Europlanet)

X-ray auroras illuminated on Mercury

Rae Hodge
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A light, cheap space telescope design would make it possible to put many individual units in space at once. Katie Yung, Daniel Apai /University of Arizona and AllThingsSpace /SketchFab, CC BY-ND (SketchFab)

Next gen telescope after James Webb

Daniel Apai - The Conversation
An artist impression of exoplanet LTT9779b orbiting its host star. The planet is around the size of Neptune and reflects 80% of the light shone on it, making it the largest known “mirror” in the Universe. (ESA/Ricardo Ramírez Reyes/Universidad de Chile)

New planet is universe's largest mirror

Matthew Rozsa
The surface of Titan, Saturns largest moon (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How rivers on Titan and Mars flow

Nicole Karlis
In this artist’s interpretation, a pair of supermassive black holes (top left) emits gravitational waves that ripple through the fabric of space-time. (Photo courtesy of Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration)

Scientists “hear” gravitational wave hum

Nicole Karlis
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Quasar SDSS J0100+2802, EIGER (Emission-line galaxies and Intergalactic Gas in the Epoch of Reionization) Survey (NASA, ESA, CSA, Simon Lilly (ETH Zürich), Daichi Kashino (Nagoya University), Jorryt Matthee (ETH Zürich), Christina Eilers (MIT), Rob Simcoe (MIT), Rongmon Bordoloi (NCSU), Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zürich); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Ruari Macken)

James Webb highlights ancient galaxies

Matthew Rozsa
View Of Earth's Moon Against The Sky At Night (Getty Images/Alexander Rieber/EyeEm)

Microbial life may exist on the Moon

Matthew Rozsa
The Pentagon (Getty Images/Kiyoshi Tanno)

Whistleblower details UFO spacecraft

Rae Hodge
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote address during the 2016 Microsoft Build Developer Conference on March 30, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The week's wildest tech moments

Rae Hodge
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Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back

Chad Hanna - The Conversation
Saudi astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi waves before being brought to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft for launch from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on May 21, 2023 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A historic day for women in space

Rae Hodge
Artist’s impression of an aurora and the surrounding radiation belt of the ultracool dwarf LSR J1835+3259. (Chuck Carter / Melodie Kao / Heising-Simons Foundation)

Massive auroras in another solar system

Troy Farah
An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn in the outer solar system, circa 1980. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

The oldest space probes that still work

Troy Farah
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This artist's concept shows the brilliant glare of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in the chaotic process of merging. (NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

Astronomers solve a 60-year mystery

Troy Farah
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Musk's exploded rocket devastates a town

Troy Farah
Total Solar Eclipse (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Everything to know about 2024's eclipse

Troy Farah
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Earthquakes on Mars reveal core mystery

Troy Farah
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