Roman Is on Its Way to L2. Why Are Its First Days in Space So Carefully Choreographed?
Roman’s antenna, sunshade and visor are deployed. Here is why the telescope’s three-month commissioning journey matters before its first images arrive.
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Roman’s antenna, sunshade and visor are deployed. Here is why the telescope’s three-month commissioning journey matters before its first images arrive.
A Charnia fossil from Norway preserves rare ridges along its branches. Researchers trace how an underwater sediment flow may have carried and buried it.
A chemical record preserved in their teeth suggests that most of the men in Phaleron’s shackled mass graves grew up in Attica. The finding shifts the debate from foreign invaders to violence within the community itself.
MOONS has made its first observations at the Very Large Telescope. Its thousand optical fibres could help reveal the history hidden in stars and galaxies.
Avi Loeb’s baseball-pitch analogy shows why motion, distance and the observing medium matter when scientists interpret UAP reports.
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