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The sheer scale of the universe may oftentimes escape everyday description; our “pale blue dot” may sometimes feel miniscule compared with the sheer scale of the rest of the universe. In response to this, Modern Sciences champions the latest in astronomical developments and discoveries, to help us truly understand what lies beyond our blue skies—not just the universe as how we see it, but a universe in which we are a part. “We are made of star stuff,” after all.
After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning
NASA / JPL Alice Gorman, Flinders University On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left…
Scientists are turning data into sound to listen to the whispers of the universe (and more)
CSIRO , Author provided Jeffrey Cooke, Swinburne University of Technology We often think of astronomy as a visual…
Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid
Kevin Gill/Flickr, CC BY-SA Uisdean Nicholson, Heriot-Watt University; Sean Gulick, University of Texas at Austin, and Veronica Bray,…
This Australian experiment is on the hunt for an elusive particle that could help unlock the mystery of dark matter
Shutterstock Ben McAllister, The University of Western Australia Australian scientists are making strides towards solving one of the…
A cosmic time machine: how the James Webb Space Telescope lets us see the first galaxies in the universe
NASA/JWST Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology It has been an exciting week with the release of breathtaking…
To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and the James Webb Space Telescope just proved it’s possible to do so
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star 40 light-years from Earth and may…
How the James Webb deep field images reminded me the divide between science and art is artificial
NASA/STScI, CC BY-SA Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney The first task I give photography students is to…
Can We Humans Ever Leave the Solar System?
Science fiction makes it look easy, but make no mistake: travelling to even the nearest planet takes a…
James Webb telescope: a scientist explains what its first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy
A star forming region in the Milky Way. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Martin Barstow, University of Leicester…
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for
The mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned and producing incredibly sharp images, like this…