Astrophysics

This is the first image taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover

Technology Review: NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars. The spacecraft survived its journey through the Martian atmosphere and made a soft touchdown at Jezero crater. Shortly after landing, it sent back this picture from the surface using its Hazard…

There’s a tantalizing sign of a habitable-zone planet in Alpha Centauri

Technology Review: An international team of astronomers has found signs that a habitable planet may be lurking in Alpha Centauri, a binary star system a mere 4.37 light-years away. It…

Advanced CMOS detectors enable next-generation astronomy

Physics World: Ground-based astronomy remains at the forefront of our quest to understand more about the cosmos. While many celestial bodies in the night sky can be seen at visible wavelengths, the signal often becomes very faint by the time it…

Next-generation planetary missions could hunt for gravitational waves, say astronomers

Physics World: Spacecraft heading to Uranus and Neptune in the next decade could be used to investigate gravitational waves as they venture into the outer Solar System. That is according…