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Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, a nine-year journey pays off. The New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in 2015, gathering data on its surface, interior structure, atmosphere, and more. Credit: NASA/APL New Horizons launched in January 2006, and by July 14, 2015, it had reached its primary goal: Pluto. The…
How do you check the universe’s age without a birth certificate? One clever answer is to find its oldest surviving residents and see how old they’ve had time to become. A team led by Indranil Banik at the University of Portsmouth has just done exactly that, combing through the ages of nearly a quarter of…
On the issue of the One Ring, the entity known as Gollum famously said “we wants it, we needs it” — but it’s hard to feel the same about the incoming midquel starring Gollum himself. It’s been years since director Peter Jackson helmed the Hobbit prequels for New Line Cinema, and longer still since he…
There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes. Gas and dust don’t emit any light, and are only visible by the light that they happen to block from stars and galaxies. Magnetic fields are even harder since regular light typically passes right through them. However,…
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has completed frame qualification testing for the NASA Dragonfly rotorcraft. The milestone moves the mission closer to its scheduled July 2028 launch. When it arrives at Saturn’s largest moon in 2034, the rotorcraft will build upon the legacy of the European Space Agency Huygens probe, which landed on Titan…