The largest global survey of physicists finds 68% don’t see the Big Bang as time’s start, with split views on inflation, dark matter and quantum gravity.
Category: Astronomy
Astrophysics, Astronomy, JWST, NASA, ESA, Roskosmos
Hayabusa2 fired its laser twice at asteroid Torifune during a high‑speed flyby. Here’s how laser ranging works and why it matters for future missions.
A global roughness map says Mercury shrank more than thought: nearly 12 miles in diameter, a 10–30% boost tied to debris-hidden wrinkles.
Hubble spots a giant decagon around Saturn’s south pole—about 104,250 miles wide—inviting comparisons with the long‑lived northern hexagon.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30, 2026; 30 days to L2, about three months of commissioning, then a five-year, 1.4‑TB/day survey.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT to survey 100× Hubble’s view, 1000× faster, map 20 billion Milky Way stars, and send 1.4 TB daily.
Dust in Antarctic snow matches solar system cloud crossings, while 10% N2O under a 70% Sun warms Earth’s equator to about 41°F.
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a field of 4–8 cm polygons and measures their shapes and chemistry to probe whether they formed as ancient mud cracks.
Discover the fastest known star in the Milky Way, orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at incredible speeds.
Discover the Tarantula Nebula’s role in stellar evolution and its significance in understanding the universe.