Any event in the cosmos generates gravitational waves, the bigger the event, the more disturbance. Events where black holes and neutron stars collide can send out waves detectable here on Earth. ...
During the Space Race, scientists in both the United States and the Soviet Union investigated the concept of ion propulsion. Like many early Space Age proposals, the concept was originally explor...
https://www.universetoday.com/166747/next-generation-ion-engines-will-be-extremely-powerful/
The Milky Way has a missing pulsar problem in its core. Astronomers have tried to explain this for years. One of the more interesting ideas comes from a team of astronomers in Europe and invokes ...
https://www.universetoday.com/166773/neutron-stars-could-be-capturing-primordial-black-holes/
Space travel and exploration was never going to be easy. Failures are sadly all too common but it’s wonderful to see missions exceed expectations. The Japanese Space Agency’s SLIM lunar lande...
https://www.universetoday.com/166765/japans-lunar-lander-survives-its-third-lunar-night/
It’s difficult to actually visualise a universe that is changing. Things tend to happen at snails pace albeit with the odd exception. Take the formation of galaxies growing in the early univers...
https://www.universetoday.com/166763/black-holes-can-halt-star-formation-in-massive-galaxies/
We are all very familiar with the concept of the Earth’s magnetic field. It turns out that most objects in space have magnetic fields but it’s quite tricky to measure them. Astronomers have d...
https://www.universetoday.com/166761/mapping-the-milky-ways-magnetic-field-in-3d/
Solar Sails are an enigmatic and majestic way to travel across the gulf of space. Drawing an analogy to the sail ships of the past, they are one of the most efficient ways of propelling craft in ...
https://www.universetoday.com/166759/nasas-new-solar-sail-has-launched-and-deployed/
Scientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers have been hungering for better detectors. But the Earth is warm and seismically noisy, and tha...
Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Astronomers using TESS think they a...
https://www.universetoday.com/166755/tess-finds-its-first-rogue-planet/
Over the last few years I have been renovating my home. Building on Earth seems to be a fairly well understood process, after all we have many different materials to chose from. But what about fu...
https://www.universetoday.com/166748/there-are-four-ways-to-build-with-regolith-on-the-moon/