A photon’s journey through a hydrogen molecule is the shortest event ever timed
Researchers have measured what is now the shortest time ever – 247 zeptoseconds.
Earth May Have Recaptured a 1960s-era Rocket Booster
Earth has captured a tiny object from its orbit around the Sun and will keep it as a temporary satellite for a few months before it escapes again.
New Radio Images of Galaxies in the Perseus Cluster
Astronomers used the VLA to look at how crowding affects the galaxies in the Perseus Cluster, which is about 240 million light-years from Earth.
A little-known Mass Extinction and the Dawn of the Modern World
There have been multiple extinction events in Earth’s past, including the largest such event, the end-Permian extinction, which wiped out 95% of all marine species on Earth.
Radioactive Elements May Be Crucial to Rocky Planets’ Habitability
Liquid water, it turns out, is no longer the only criteria considered important for the habitability of a world.
Escape from Mars: How Water Fled the Red Planet
University of Arizona researchers have discovered a surprisingly large amount of water in the upper atmosphere, being rapidly destroyed.
Surprisingly Little Water Has Escaped from Venus
Moa Persson, of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and Umeå University, is defending her doctoral thesis on the subject of just how much water has escaped from Venus.
Truth Uncovered About Luminous Infrared Kilonova
Sometimes in astronomy, you get lucky. The sky is big, and many astronomically interesting events are extremely rare and brief.
PSLV successfully launches EOS-01 and nine customer satellites from Sriharikota
India launched its first rocket of the year! On November 7 at 09:42 UTC, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carried the EOS-1 to orbit from Satish Dhawan Space Center.
Chinese rocket firm Galactic Energy succeeds with first orbital launch, secures funding
On Saturday, November 7th at 07:10 UTC, the inaugural launch of a Ceres-1 rocket took place at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, located in northwest China.
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