Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...
ScienceAlert on MSN8h
Extreme Drop in Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth
A new asteroid that was discovered hurtling towards Earth in December has the highest odds of a collision to date, according ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN9h
Milky Way’s central black hole is generating massive bursts of energy
At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* is never at rest. Using NASA’s James Webb ...
Flickers and flares: Milky Way's central black hole constantly bubbles with light
Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...
Space on MSN22h
James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars
How do you cool down a phoenix? I don't mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature.
Exoplanet's Winds 'Challenge Our Understanding of How Weather Works'
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
Space on MSN16h
James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video)
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China's new 'artificial sun' sets world record — here's how it could change energy production forever
There's a new sun rising in China. Well, sort of. China's nuclear fusion reactor, called the Experimental Advanced ...