space

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is on its way, completing the intricate process of unfolding as it travels. The telescope’s sun shield and primary mirror were folded origami-style to fit into the Ariane rocket, its taxi into space. The…

A team of astrophysicists suggests that all black holes were created instantly after the Big Bang and account for all dark matter. Researchers from the University of Miami, Yale University, and the European Space Agency believe black holes…

In a joint effort between the Italian Space Agency and NASA, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched on December 9th. The observatory is NASA's first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from extreme…

The Department of Defense (DoD) chose BAE Systems to qualify a new generation of integrated circuit technology for use in space. The new 12-nanometer technology uses a smaller feature size compared with current 45-nanometer technology,…

The risk is real. Space missions carry all sorts of important logistical and scientific instrumentation. They also carry the risk of biological contamination according to a recent article in BioScience. Researchers with expertise in…

Although conventional microscopes enlarge images of small structures or objects using light, they miss the mark with nanoparticles that remain invisible due to their inability to absorb or scatter light. Optical resonators can increase the…

The detection of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves is delivering insights into the development of the universe, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham. Gravitational waves that transverse the universe at the speed of…

When a black hole consumes a star, it produces a "tidal disruption event." The shredding of the star causes an outburst of radiation that can outshine the combined light of every star in the black hole's host galaxy for months, or even…

Millennium Space Systems just demonstrated a deployable tether expected to significantly reduce the time a satellite remains on orbit after its useful life ends. Dragracer is the first direct comparison of a drag tape that quickly and…

Gene Roddenberry, visionary, American writer and television and film producer who created and was the executive producer of Star Trek , would have turned 100.  To celebrate his legacy, NASA will observe Roddenberry's 100th birthday with a…