It would be very optimistic to suggest that we have a good handle on dark matter. But even the slightest understanding we have can lead to the loss of something important. New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have found much higher concentrations of dark matter in the order of …
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The Nancy Roman Telescope has reached another milestone in its development. NASA has announced that the primary mirror of the Space Telescope has now been completed. The 2.4 m (7.9 ft) mirror took less time to develop than other mirrors because it was not built from scratch. It is a …
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NASA is actively monitoring an early anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field: a gigantic region with lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, which extends between South America and southwest Africa. This large, evolving phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and troubled scientists for years, and …
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