67 results for "Gaia Mission"

In a significant breakthrough, the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, renowned for mapping stars in the Milky Way, has identified hundreds of previously unknown asteroid moons in our solar system....

Posted on Jun 29, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, Future, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Science News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories range from We May Have to...

“Rather than flying away from the Galactic center, most of the high-velocity stars we spotted seem to be racing towards it,” says Tommaso Marchetti who used an artificial neural network,...

Posted on Apr 30, 2018 Since the Gaia Spacecraft's second massive data drop last week, scientists have released over 30 new research papers in just two days following the announcement....

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, dedicated to mapping the stars, has faced significant challenges recently due to a micrometeoroid impact and an intense solar storm. These events...

ESA scientists observe that it cannot be proven whether the particular cloud of dust and gas that gave birth to our Sun collapsed as a result of the collision with...

Posted on Jun 11, 2019 in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Science A threat to Earth? Astronomers probing the edges of the Milky Way have in recent years observed some of the...

“The tension seems to have grown into a full-blown incompatibility between our views of the early and late time universe,” said Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science...

Is evidence of a twin Earth buried in unexamined Kepler Mission data? Kepler’s last observing campaign, Campaign 19, started on August 29, 2018 after the spacecraft’s configuration had been modified...

The combined new data from the Gaia and Hubble Space Telescope data are in serious conflict with the Cosmic Microwave Background data,” said Planck team member George Efstathiou of the...

Posted on Jul 17, 2022 in Science This weekend’s stories range from Astronomers are unscrambling the warped galaxies seen by JWST to Building blocks of life found floating in the...

“The amount of data we are receiving from missions such as the European Space Agency GAIA telescope is staggering. We develop software to characterize the one  billion stars, but finding...

Today’s stories range from Pentagon creates Anomaly Resolution Office to Enceladus’s oceans may be the right saltiness to sustain life to LHCb Ramps Up the Search for Dark Photons, and...

Posted on Jun 16, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories range...

Posted on Jun 27, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Extraterrestrial Life, Galaxies, Gravitational Waves, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Multiverse, quantum physics, Science, Space News, Standard Model of Physics, Technology, Universe...

“Finding old stars could also lead to the discovery of new planets. Maybe we can find some ancient civilizations around these old stars,” suggested astrophysicist, Wei-Chun Jao, research scientist at...

Posted on Sep 7, 2021 in Science Andromeda’s “Covid-19”? –astrophysicist Paul Davies argues virus may pervade the cosmos. A primordial black hole could possibly hit Earth. Mysterious blobs 100 times...

Posted on Dec 1, 2022 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy In 2021, astronomers discovered a previously unrecognized spur of young stars and star-forming gas clouds sticking out of the Milky...

Posted on May 26, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Milky Way Galaxy The Milky Way Galaxy isn’t the flat spiral shape you probably imagine, according to new research by  astrophysicists at...

Posted on Apr 22, 2021 in Science “With the wake we have a brand new testing ground for theories of dark matter,” wrote Harvard astrophysicist Rohan Naidu in an email...

In 2016, astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission, discovered a planet unlike anything in our solar system –a “water world” planetary system orbiting the star Kepler-62 –a five-planet system...

“One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion....

We are living through our Solar System’s twentieth, 223-250 million-year orbit of the Milky Way near the inner edge of the ephemeral spiral feature known as the Orion Arm or,...

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Science, Space Something is warping our home galaxy. Astronomers suspect that Sagittarius, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way might...

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 in Astronomy, Science, Space Gaia Mission scientists called it “hiding in plain sight” referring to their major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the...

Posted on Jul 17, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “We know the Milky Way has a bar, like other barred spiral galaxies, but so far we only had indirect indications...

Posted on Oct 22, 2022 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Milky Way Galaxy, Science An enormous ‘ghost’ galaxy, believed to be one of the oldest in the universe, was detected lurking on...

At present, our Solar System is in its twentieth orbit of the Milky Way near the inner edge of a spiral feature known as the Orion Arm or, less poetically,...

Posted on Jan 31, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, News, Physics, Science “J1820 went from a totally unknown black hole to one of the brightest sources in the X-ray sky over...

NASA’s Kepler Mission K2 team announced the discovery of another new world today, two months after the Kepler spacecraft ran out of fuel on Oct. 30th, and ended its mission...

In 2018,  a long-hidden and especially tumultuous chapter in the Milky Way’s history was revealed: a smash-up between the young Galaxy and a colossal companion that once orbited the Milky...

What remains unexplained is the object’s giant size, says astronomer Sergey Koposov at Carnegie Mellon University. “Normally, as galaxies lose mass to the Milky Way’s tides, they shrink, not grow.” “Another...

Posted on Oct 1, 2018 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System, Technology When Oumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor, raced through our solar system last year, astronomers had a first glimpse...

“It’s amazing to think that the enigmatic intermediate-size exoplanets could be water worlds with vast amounts of water. Hopefully atmosphere observations in the future–of thick steam atmospheres—can support or refute...

Posted on Jul 18, 2018 in Astronomy, Science, SETI, Technology To discover and confirm the presence of a planet around stars other than the Sun, astronomers wait until it has...

The Alien Observatory: Ancient Stars 6-9 Billion Years Old in Milky Way’s Halo –“May Harbor Advanced Civilizations” “Maybe We’re Going About It All Wrong” –Behavior of Galaxies and Clusters Don’t...

Posted on May 3, 2018 in Alien Life, Astronomy, Cosmos, Discoveries, Extraterrestrial Life, Galaxies, Science, SETI, Solar System, Technology The Milky Way is nearly 14 billion years old, and its...

Researchers have allegedly discovered seven stars in our galaxy that exhibit signs of potentially being surrounded by Dyson spheres, advanced structures built by hypothetical alien civilizations to harness the energy...

A recent study of metal ore deep inside the moon has unveiled evidence that the Earth's natural satellite was created when another planet crashed into Earth a long time ago....

Posted on Dec 2, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe This weekend’s stories include A quantum computer has simulated a...

Posted on Sep 21, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Science, Science News, Space News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories include Earth’s algae...

Posted on Jul 13, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Milky Way Galaxy, quantum physics, Science, Science...

Posted on Mar 1, 2022 in Science “The Galaxy Report” brings you news of space and science that has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence...

Posted on Jul 31, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Science “The galaxy in which this supermassive black hole resides, called “I Zwicky 1”, is what’s known as a Seyfert...

Posted on May 8, 2021 in Planet Earth, Science, Technology This week’s stories from Planet Earth range from the discovery of single-celled organisms the size of basketballs existing in the...

Posted on Feb 4, 2021 in Astronomy, Science In 1967, Jocelyn Bell, then a graduate student in astronomy at Cambridge University, noticed a strange signal, a series of sharp pulses...

Posted on Dec 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “Gaia is measuring the distances of hundreds of millions of objects that are many thousands of light years...

Posted on Dec 7, 2020 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Sep 1, 2020 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...