Astronomy

Science 4 min Gas Clouds Near Earth Glow in Gamma Rays, and China's LHAASO Used Them to Count Cosmic Rays Charged particles from deep space cannot be traced to their sources, so astronomers study the interstellar mat... NA Nadia Rahim 30 Sep Science 5 min Astronomers Find the First Planet Orbiting a Red Dwarf Backwards Most planets orbit the way their star spins. GJ 3090 b, about 73 light-years away, goes the other way, and no... NA Nadia Rahim 27 Sep Science 5 min Roman Space Telescope Now Carries Fuel for 22 Years of a 10-Year Mission A course correction cost a tenth of its propellant budget. What that buys is optionality, not an approved two... NA Nadia Rahim 19 Sep Science 6 min A Record Lunar Crater Sat in NASA's Data for Seventeen Months No telescope caught the flash. The evidence was already in the archive, and the impact chilled a ring of groun... NA Nadia Rahim 19 Sep Science 6 min The Youngest Planet Ever Found Was Sitting in a 2018 Archive Nobody booked telescope time to find Elias 2-24 b. Someone went back to eight-year-old Keck data with better s... NA Nadia Rahim 18 Sep Science 6 min NASA's Roman Telescope Has Hubble's Mirror and a Hundred Times the Field Launched 30 August and en route to L2, with first images expected in early 2027. It is a survey instrument, so... NA Nadia Rahim 4 Sep