Slashdot Items Tagged "astronomy"

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Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:57PM Scientists Complete Construction of the Biggest Digital Camera Ever
Monday March 04, 2024 @06:27PM Setback For Hopes of Life As NASA Says Less Oxygen On Jupiter Moon Than Thought
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:18PM Harvard Astronomy Professor Thinks He Has New Evidence of Alien Spacecraft
Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:59PM A Simple Streetlight Hack Could Protect Astronomy From Urban Light Pollution
Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:00PM A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky
Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:35AM Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down
Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:54PM Two-Faced Star With Helium and Hydrogen Sides Baffles Astronomers
Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:30PM Something In Space Has Been Lighting Up Every 20 Minutes Since 1988
Friday July 14, 2023 @10:51PM Age of Universe Nearly Twice As Old As Previously Believed
Monday June 12, 2023 @08:03PM Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93
Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:09PM Fast Radio Burst Linked With Gravitational Waves For the First Time
Monday March 27, 2023 @08:36PM Black Holes May Be Swallowing Invisible Matter That Slows the Movement of Stars
Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:47PM DART Mission Reveals Asteroid Dimorphos Contains No Water
Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:46PM Scientists Find First Evidence That Black Holes Are the Source of Dark Energy
Thursday February 09, 2023 @07:39PM A Mysterious Ring Surrounding Mini-Planet 'Quaoar' Puzzles Astronomers
Monday January 23, 2023 @07:57PM Exotic Green Comet Not Seen Since Stone Age Returns To Skies Above Earth
Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:17PM We Exist Inside a Giant Space Bubble, And Scientists Have Finally Mapped It
Friday January 06, 2023 @03:52PM Astronomy Education Jobs
Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:08PM Every Planet In the Solar System Will Be Visible Tonight
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:50PM Astronomy and Space Education
Friday December 09, 2022 @09:21PM Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System
Monday December 05, 2022 @07:49PM 'NASA's Plan To Make JWST Data Immediately Available Will Hurt Astronomy'
Friday December 02, 2022 @08:30PM Astronomers Say a New, Huge Satellite Is As Bright As the Brightest Stars
Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:00PM New Discovery Could Reduce the Number of Potentially Habitable Planets
Friday September 30, 2022 @09:10PM Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands For the Last Time
Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:58PM New Binary Pulsar Detected With CHIME
Friday September 23, 2022 @06:22PM Alien-Hunting Astronomer Says There May Be a Second Interstellar Object On Earth In New Study
Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:33PM Maarten Schmidt, First Astronomer to Identify a Quasar, Dies at 92
Tuesday September 13, 2022 @07:50PM Ukraine's Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv
Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:53PM Dark Matter From 12 Billion Years Ago Detected For the First Time
Monday July 18, 2022 @08:03PM First Dormant Black Hole Found Outside the Milky Way
Tuesday May 31, 2022 @10:30PM Astronomers Unexpectedly Capture 'Great Dimming' of Supergiant Star Betelgeuse
Monday May 23, 2022 @06:16PM New Calculations of Solar Spectrum Resolve Decade-Long Controversy About the Sun's Chemical Composition
Friday April 08, 2022 @07:44PM Astronomers Discover Farthest Object In the Known Universe
Monday January 17, 2022 @10:24PM Astronomers Find Growing Number of Starlink Satellite Tracks
Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:30PM Astronomers Have Found Another Possible 'Exomoon' beyond Our Solar System
Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:42PM Death Throes of Red Supergiant Star Observed In Real Time
Monday December 06, 2021 @10:20PM Mysterious Galaxy Without Dark Matter Puzzles Astronomers
Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:38PM Sun Fires Off Major Solar Flare From Earth-Facing Sunspot
Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:01PM Amateur Astronomer Spots Possible New Impact Flash At Jupiter
Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:17PM Scientists Locate Likely Origin For the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:10PM Kepler Telescope Glimpses Population of Free-Floating Planets
Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:34PM Glauconitic-Like Clay Found On Mars Suggests the Planet Once Had Habitable Conditions
Friday May 21, 2021 @07:46PM Unexpected Gaseous Nickel Spewing From Second Known Interstellar Object
Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:12PM Astronomer Makes Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel
Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:31PM Complex Carbon-Based Molecules Found In Space
Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:12PM Mars May Hide Oceans of Water Beneath Its Crust, Study Finds
Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:18PM Universe's Oldest Known Quasar Discovered 13 Billion Light-Years Away
Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:41PM Robots Are Speeding Up the Most Boring Job In Astronomy
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:04PM Most Distant Quasar Discovered Sheds Light On How Black Holes Grow
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:57PM TESS Discovers Its First Earth-Sized Planet
Monday January 04, 2021 @11:02PM Astronomers Agree: Universe Is Nearly 14 Billion Years Old
Friday January 01, 2021 @10:00PM Astronomers Find 19 More Galaxies Missing Their Dark Matter
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:56PM Astronomers Capture the Highest-Resolution Photo of the Sun Ever Taken
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:53PM 15-Million-Year-Old Crater On Earth Reveals Clues About Mars' Watery Past
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:50PM ALMA Discovers Massive Rotating Disk In Early Universe
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:47PM Scientists Unveil Largest 3D Map of the Universe Ever
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:44PM Telescopes Record Last Moments of Star Devoured By a Black Hole
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:17PM Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:13PM Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:12PM MIT-Led Mission Reveals the Moon's Battered Crust Is Riddled With Cracks
Monday December 14, 2020 @07:35PM Astronomers Discover Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through the Solar System
Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:05PM Amateur Astronomer Alberto Caballero Finds Possible Source of Wow! Signal
Friday November 20, 2020 @08:54PM Astronomers Discover New 'Fossil Galaxy' Buried Deep Within the Milky Way
Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:23PM Texas Astronomers Revive Idea For 'Ultimately Large Telescope' On the Moon
Friday November 06, 2020 @07:55PM Scientists Discover Bizarre Hell Planet Where It Rains Rocks and Oceans Are Made of Lava
Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:01PM Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Burst To Extreme, Rare Star
Friday August 21, 2020 @08:34PM Volunteers Spot Almost 100 Cold Brown Dwarfs Near Our Sun
Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:30PM Core of a Gas Planet Seen For the First Time
Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:16PM A Massive Star Has Seemingly Vanished from Space With No Explanation
Friday June 19, 2020 @06:41PM Are Planets With Oceans Common In the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists Find
Friday May 22, 2020 @04:55PM It's Official: SpaceX Is a 'Go' To Launch NASA Astronauts On Crew Dragon Spaceship
Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:53PM NASA's Human Spaceflight Chief Resigns a Week Before Historic SpaceX Launch
Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:36AM SpaceX Releases Crew Dragon Simulator To Show What It's Like To Dock With the ISS
Monday May 11, 2020 @07:42PM Scientists Get Their Best-Ever Look At Jupiter's Atmosphere and Storms
Monday April 20, 2020 @12:03PM Gravitational waves reveal unprecedented collision of heavy and light black hole
Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:01PM First-Ever Photo Proof of Powerful Jet Emerging From Colliding Galaxies
Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:25PM Can Astronauts Use GPS To Navigate On the Moon?
Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:39PM Astronomers Report Most Distant Blazar Ever Observed
Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:40PM Scientists Observe Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Buzz Past Earth With Its Own Moon
Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:34PM Understanding the Impact of Satellite Constellations On Astronomy
Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:25PM Understanding the Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy
Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:19PM China's 500-Meter FAST Radio Telescope Is Now Operational
Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:33PM Scientists Detect 'Unknown or Unanticipated' Burst of Gravitational Waves In Space
Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:06PM Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:16AM Astronomers Discover Huge Gaseous Wave Holding Milky Way's Newest Stars
Friday January 03, 2020 @01:07AM NASA Astronaut's Blood Clot In Space Gets Treated By Doctor On Earth
Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:39AM Missing Stars Could Point To Alien Civilizations, Scientists Say
Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:04PM Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy
Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:07PM How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched To LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache
Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:53PM Astronomers Have Spotted An Interstellar Comet Flying Toward Earth
Monday September 09, 2019 @07:21PM New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters
Friday August 09, 2019 @06:54PM Dark Matter May Predate the Big Bang, New Math Suggests
Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:53PM Two Potentially Life-Friendly Planets Found Orbiting a Nearby Star
Friday June 14, 2019 @08:49PM Astronomers Detected Signs of Our Milky Way Colliding With Another Galaxy
Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:29AM Researchers Solve Mystery of the Galaxy With No Dark Matter
Tuesday May 28, 2019 @06:37PM SpaceX's Bright Starlink Satellites Are Upsetting Astronomers
Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:44PM Jeff Bezos Unveils Lunar Lander To Take Astronauts To the Moon By 2024
Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:49PM Measurements Confirm Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected
Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:12PM Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule
Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:51AM Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life, Says Astronomer
Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:13PM Astronomer Finds Potential Furthest Object In Solar System
Saturday February 23, 2019 @10:36PM NASA Approves SpaceX's Crew Dragon For March 2 Unmanned Flight To the ISS
Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:44PM The Shape of the Milky Way Is Warped and Twisted
Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:46PM A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries
Friday December 14, 2018 @11:33PM NASA's Hubble Telescope Discovers An 'Evaporating' Planet
Friday November 30, 2018 @10:18PM Astronomers Measure Total Starlight Emitted Over 13.7 Billion Years
Friday November 16, 2018 @10:00PM NASA Decommissions the Kepler Space Telescope
Monday November 05, 2018 @10:39PM SpaceX's Helipad-Equipped Boat Will Bring Astronauts Safely Home
Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:47PM NASA Astronaut Details Fall To Earth After Failed Soyuz Launch
Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:32PM A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities
Wednesday October 03, 2018 @10:24PM Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans For Huge Reusable Moon Lander For Astronauts
Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:07AM Discovery of 'Goblin' Solar System Object Bolsters the Case For Planet Nine
Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:20PM Astronomers Detected a 'Ghost Particle' and Tracked It To Its Source
Tuesday May 22, 2018 @12:00AM Asteroid From Another Star System Found Orbiting Wrong Way Near Jupiter
Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:22AM Scientists Discover That Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs
Friday April 13, 2018 @09:17PM NASA May Fly Humans On the Less Powerful Version of Its Deep-Space Rocket
Monday April 02, 2018 @07:43PM Hubble Space Telescope Spots the Farthest Known Star
Thursday March 15, 2018 @12:47AM All Disk Galaxies Rotate Once Every Billion Years
Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:54PM Amateur Astronomer Spots Supernova Right As It Begins
Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:06PM Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food
Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:48PM US Tests Nuclear Power System To Sustain Astronauts On Mars
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:10PM The Astronomer Who Is Building the Largest Map of Space by Volume
Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:48PM Astronomers Have Come Up With a Better Way To Weigh Millions of Solitary Stars
Monday November 20, 2017 @06:24PM Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape
Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:29PM Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away
Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:29AM NASA Astronaut Dick Gordon, Pilot of Gemini and Apollo 12, Dies At 88
Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:10PM Five New Asteroids Surprise Astronomers In Hubble Images
Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:03PM Entrepreneurial Space Age Began In 2009, Says Report
Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:18PM Astronaut Paul Weitz Dies At 85; Veteran of Skylab and Shuttle Missions
Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:58PM Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon
Monday October 16, 2017 @12:47PM Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars
Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:33PM A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected
Friday September 01, 2017 @06:47PM Astronomers Detect 15 Atypical Signals From Distant Galaxy
Friday August 18, 2017 @06:41PM Atlas 5 Rocket Launches $400 Million NASA Satellite Into Space
Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:25PM Astronomers Detect Four Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting The Nearest Sun-Like Star
Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:31PM Former Astronaut Julie Payette To Be Canada's Next Governor General
Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:02PM August Solar Eclipse Could Disrupt Roads and Cellular Networks
Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:49PM Astronomers Prove To Einstein That Stars Can Warp Light
Monday June 05, 2017 @05:13PM Astronomers Discover Alien World Hotter Than Most Stars
Friday May 12, 2017 @10:21PM NASA Won't Fly Astronauts On First Orion-SLS Test Flight Around the Moon
Friday April 07, 2017 @08:11PM There's an Earth-like Planet With an Atmosphere Just 39 Light-years Away
Friday March 31, 2017 @11:07PM Simulation Suggests 68 Percent of the Universe May Not Actually Exist
Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:56PM Astronomers Find Star Orbiting a Black Hole At 1 Percent the Speed of Light
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:49PM NASA Scientists Propose New Definition of Planets, and Pluto Could Soon Be Back
Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:38PM Boeing Unveils New NASA Spacesuits For Starliner Austronaut Taxi
Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:08AM Scientists Enter Hawaii Dome In Eight-Month Mars Space Mission Study
Monday January 16, 2017 @05:06PM NASA Astronaut Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On the Moon, Dies At 82
Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:33PM Astronomers Pinpoint Location of Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Friday December 30, 2016 @08:16PM NASA Designs 'Ice Dome' For Astronauts On Mars
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @08:08PM Vera Rubin, Pioneering Astronomer Who Confirmed Existence of Dark Matter, Dies At 88
Wednesday December 07, 2016 @06:21PM Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find
Friday December 02, 2016 @05:02PM Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars
Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:20AM Spinal Fluid Changes In Space May Impair Astronauts' Vision, Study Finds
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:31PM New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter
Friday November 04, 2016 @05:19PM A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe
Monday October 17, 2016 @05:21PM Venus May Have Been the First Habitable Planet In Our Solar System, Study Suggests
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:50AM Jupiter's Moon Europa May Have Water Plumes That Rise Up About 125 Miles
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:14AM Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:12AM EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way
Monday August 29, 2016 @10:43PM Hunt For Ninth Planet Reveals Distant Solar System Objects
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:06PM NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams Sets New US Space Endurance Record With 521 Days
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @03:02PM Earth-Like Planet, With Ambitious Life Possibility, Found Orbiting the Star Next Door
Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:29PM Astronauts To Install A Parking Space For SpaceX and Boeing At The ISS
Monday August 15, 2016 @09:05PM There May Be A Fifth Force of Nature, Study Suggests
Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:36PM Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight With Up To 200 Meteors Per Hour
Thursday July 28, 2016 @07:25PM Study: Astronauts Who Reach Deep Space 'Far More Likely To Die From Heart Disease'
Monday July 11, 2016 @06:20PM New Dwarf Planet Discovered In Outer Solar System
Friday July 08, 2016 @08:54PM First Water Clouds Reported Outside The Solar System
Saturday June 25, 2016 @01:19AM NASA Approves Five More Years For Hubble Space Telescope
Friday June 17, 2016 @12:50AM Astronomers Say There Could Be At Least Two More Mystery Planets In Our Solar System
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:02PM Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study
Saturday June 11, 2016 @09:31AM The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future
Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:49PM Atomic Oxygen Detected In Martian Atmosphere
Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:37PM 15-Year-Old Boy Discovers Long-Lost Ancient Mayan City Using Constellations And Google
Thursday April 14, 2016 @06:57PM Shockwave Images Help NASA In Development of 'Quiet' Supersonic Jet
Friday April 01, 2016 @03:40PM Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere
Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:21PM NASA Competition Could Net You $1.5 Million For Next Great Airship
Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:31PM UW Astronomers Find A Rare Supernova 'Imposter' In A Nearby Galaxy
Friday January 29, 2016 @02:47PM Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus
Tuesday November 24, 2015 @09:45AM Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism
Thursday November 12, 2015 @09:34AM Comet Catalina To Pass By Earth For the Final Time
Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:21AM Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer
Monday September 28, 2015 @01:26AM Tonight's Dazzling 'Supermoon' Lunar Eclipse: What You'll See
Wednesday September 23, 2015 @10:15AM Scientists Propose Using Fast Radio Bursts To Chart Universe In 3D
Monday August 31, 2015 @07:25PM World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light
Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:58PM Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @05:26AM Four Quasars Found Clustered Together Defy Current Cosmological Expectations
Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:04AM Extreme Exoplanet Volcanism Possibly Detected On 55 Cancri E
Tuesday April 07, 2015 @02:35PM Distance of a Microlensing Event Measured For the First Time
Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:13PM The Astronomer Who Brought Us the Universe
Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:41AM Science By Democracy Doesn't Work
Sunday December 28, 2014 @08:19PM What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere
Monday December 08, 2014 @11:13AM Why Pluto Still Matters
Monday December 01, 2014 @12:06AM Who Needs NASA? Exoplanet Detected Using a DSLR
Friday November 28, 2014 @08:51PM New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism
Sunday November 16, 2014 @10:44PM Leonid Meteor Shower Hits Tonight, Peaks Tomorrow
Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:37AM Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult?
Saturday August 23, 2014 @07:59PM Slashdot Asks: Cheap But Reasonable Telescopes for Kids?
Monday May 12, 2014 @10:34AM Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister