The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the Galaxy
There are probably 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, stretched across space in a disk shaped like a ninja’s throwing star. It’s so big that, traveling at the…
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Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids
The best candidate for a binary crater on Earth today is the Lockne crater in Sweden and a smaller crater nearby called Målingen. “We dated these structures…
Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets
Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is otherwise unremarkable. Its planets, however, are another…
The Unwritten Laws of Physics for Black Women
She decided to study physics. It was, in a way, good timing—a Black American woman had just become the first of her kind to earn a physics PhD, back in…
Mathematicians Transcend a Geometric Theory of Motion
“ homology theory depends only on the topology of your manifold. is Floer’s incredible insight,” said Agustin Moreno of the Institute for Advanced…
The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid Spotter Is Here
Gigantic asteroids have smashed into the Earth before—RIP dinosaurs—and if we’re not watching out for all those errant space rocks, they could crash into our…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander’s Days Are Numbered
While InSight’s pair of solar panels, each one shaped like a decagonal (10-sided) pie, efficiently provide solar power to the lander, dust has always been its…
What are supermassive black holes, the one which was photographed at the centre of The Milky Way-…
FP ExplainersMay 13, 2022 16:45:27 ISTFor the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole or SMBH, at the centre of our…
How Realistic Is the Celestial Navigation in Moon Knight?
Our planet also changes positions. In six months, the Earth will go from one side of the sun to the other. This is a change in distance of almost 300 million…