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The surprising voyage of Charlie Duke: An astronaut reaches for heaven Charles Moss Duke Jr. is, at 86, one of four surviving moon walkers. He earned his place in history on April 21, 1972, when he and Apollo 16 commander John Young stepped from their lunar module Orion onto an undulating, crater-pocked plain in the moon's ...
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Large hadron collider: A revamp that could revolutionise physics A hundred metres underground at the heart of the LHC: I'm shown around a ''majestic cathedral to science''. Deep underground amidst the Alps, scientists are barely able to contain their excitement. They whisper about discoveries that would radically ...
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The sun burps out a flare in a stellar new photo The sun is a beehive of flaring activity in a stunning new photo from a NASA spacecraft. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the sun in action as it flung a moderate-sized flare into space on Wednesday (April 20). The flare was just one of dozens ...
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See 4 planets line up with the moon in the predawn sky The quarter-phase moon points to a stunning set of planets low in the sky: Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter. Conjunctions are happily, common in the night sky. Here is a past one: Jupiter (left) and Saturn (right) are seen after sunset above Jordan Lake ...
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When to look up at the sky for the Lyrid meteor shower A shooting star of the Lyrid meteor shower is observed from the Mingantu Observing Station of National Astronomical Observatories on April 19, 2021, in Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia.
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CERN: Organization, experiments and facts If you see a news headline about exotic new subatomic particles, the chances are the discovery was made at CERN. A recent example occurred in January 2022, when CERN scientists announced "evidence of X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the ...
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The Large Hadron Collider is about to turn back on after a 3-year hiatus The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator is about to turn back on. In December of 2018, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, shut down so that improvements and updates could be made to the facility.
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Earth images from space: Our top 10 Earth images: Black and white photo, lunar surface in foreground and crescent Earth above NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first Earth image as seen from the vicinity of the moon in 1966. Forty-two years later, NASA released this much higher resolution ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors are cooling to deep space temperature Webb needs to retain such ultracool temperatures to detect infrared light in heat-emitting wavelengths. The mirrors, however, "are not ...
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Midsize black holes spotted forming in wreckage of stars In a survey of 108 galaxies, Chandra identified 29 that possessed strong X-ray signatures emanating from nuclear star clusters, which are densely populated clusters at the center of many smaller and midsize galaxies. Black holes generate X-rays when they ...
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