New research shows that Mars did not dry up all at once
Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years agoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April ...
Tag: Astronomy
NASA’s Webb Telescope packs its sunshield for a million mile trip
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its ...
First transiting exoplanet’s ‘chemical fingerprint’ reveals its distant birthplace
Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close ...
Dan Werthimer and Paul Horowitz to share 2021 Drake Award
The 2021 Drake Awards mark the first time this SETI Institute award has simultaneously recognized the achievements of two people, ...
Hubble spots double quasars in merging galaxies
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into ...
Exploring comet thermal history: Burnt-out comet covered with talcum powder
Credit: Kyoto Sangyo University The world's first ground-based observations of the bare nucleus of a comet nearing the end of ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx’s final asteroid observation run
Credit: Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it ...
Decades of hunting detects footprint of cosmic ray superaccelerators in our galaxy
Record-breaking gamma rays bathe the Milky Way in an energetic hazeCredit: HEASARC / LAMBDA / NASA / GFSC An enormous ...
First X-rays from Uranus discovered
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the ...
First interstellar comet may be the most pristine ever found
Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut New observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) indicate that the rogue comet ...
New study finds satellites contribute significant light pollution to night skies
Credit: Andreas Möller Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening ...
Stellar eggs near galactic center hatching into baby stars
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Lu et al. Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of ...
Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
Credit: M. Claro/ESO. Until now, Europe has had two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical wavelength ...
New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
Credit: Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo (IAC). Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material ...
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