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How the XRISM spacecraft can study the X-ray universe with only 36 pixels
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIts mission is to study the universe in "soft X-rays," referring to electromagnetic radiation with...
Fact Check: Blurry Telescopic Image Allegedly Shows Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon. Here's How We...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 6 days agoUnlike Earth, however, the liquid on Titan's surface is composed of hydrocarbons including methane...
UC Irvine-led research team discovers new property of light
Newswise· 3 days agoA research team headed by chemists at the University of California, Irvine has discovered a previously unknown way in which light interacts with matter, a finding that could lead to improved ...
What is the Universe? - NASA Science
NASA· 4 days agoThe universe is everything. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains. It even includes time itself and, of course, it...
X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover' in a New Light - NASA
NASA· 6 days agoNow, new observations of one dubbed the Cloverleaf suggest it was created by clashing groups of...
MIT Uncovers Photomolecular Effect: Light Can Vaporize Water Without Heat
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoMIT researchers have uncovered that light can induce evaporation, not just heat, demonstrating this...
Earth’s quasi-moon Asteroid Kamo'oalewa likely blasted out of this giant moon crater
FOX 10 Phoenix· 5 days agoLess than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international...
The science of capturing carbon dioxide
Elko Daily Free Press· 2 days agoTrees have been doing it since the Devonian period — about 400 million years ago — and it’s a good thing too. If it wasn’t for the green members of life...
Photos of original 1939 Sutton Hoo dig go on show
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“Though the drawing room in Tranmer House is free from UV light, photographs can still be damaged by visible light (LUX), but the biggest consideration...
‘Big glass’ dominance hangs on the fate of powerful new telescopes
Las Vegas Sun· 3 days agoThe Mount Wilson Observatory changed the conception of humankind’s place in the universe and revealed the mysteries of the heavens to generations of citizens and scientists alike. Ever since ...