Year: 2021

According to Vijay Varma, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, the primary objective of gravitational wave astrophysics is…

While scientists have amassed considerable knowledge of the rocky planets in our solar system, like Earth and Mars, much less is known about the icy…

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Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations at 230 GHz have now imaged polarized emission around the supermassive black hole in M87 on event-horizon scales. This polarized…

Voyager 1—one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space—still works and zooms toward infinity….…

An unseen object—probably a black hole—orbits with two normal stars in our cosmic neighborhood. MORE: eos.org/articles/the-closest-black-hole-is-1000-light-years-away#:~:text=Rivinius%20and%20his%20collaborators%20estimated%20that%20the%20black,implies%20that%20systems%20like%20this%20one%20are%20common.

Transit of IO Great Red Spot From Voyager_1 Jupiter from Voyager 1 IO Portrait of Jupiter from Cassini Jupiter photographed by NASA’s Juno probe

A small asteroid barreled through the sky and burned up over the Kalahari Desert of Botswana in the summer of 2018 and now, scientists suspect…

NASA completed the third successful flight of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity on Sunday. The NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., announced the successful flight…

Astronomers monitoring Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth’s solar system, have spotted the most powerful flare ever seen erupting from the red dwarf, a…