Seeds Have Sprouted on the Moon for the First Time [Update: It Died]
China’s miniature biosphere experiment has yielded a sprouting cotton seed.
China’s miniature biosphere experiment has yielded a sprouting cotton seed.
Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered a configuration that up until this point only existed in theory.
Scientists have measured a fundamental property of a supermassive black hole—how fast it spins—by measuring a star slamming into it.
We asked experts in astronomy and astrophysics what the loudest sound would be, if sound as we understand it existed in space.
The Hubble Space Telescope team has temporarily suspended operations of Wide Field Camera 3 following a hardware glitch.
First detected in 2002, fast radio bursts continue to mystify astronomers.
Though contact with the satellite has been lost, it continues to transmit scientific data to the Astro Space Centre.
At the end of its life, our Sun could end up as a crystal—and physicists now have observational evidence to back up that theory.
Watching how a black hole sucks up matter from a nearby companion star could help researchers better understand how these mystifying objects evolve.
Eight days after its historic landing on the far side of the Moon, China’s Chang’e 4 lander has captured its first panoramic image.
A move ostensibly intended to insulate US-Russia cooperation in space from politics has done just the opposite.
For the first time in history, a mobile probe is active on the far side of the Moon.
The new year has brought important milestones for two space missions—but only one of them deals in the very survival of the human species.
The landing marks the first time that any known spacecraft has made a soft landing on that side of the moon.
The pulsar-based system combines the long-term stability of pulsar measurements with the precision of vibrating atoms to create more accurate clocks.
Just call them lunar eclipses. Please.
