Scientists carry out first space-based measurement of neutron lifetime
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from ...
Tag: Comets/Asteroids
Tower extension test a success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Northrop Grumman To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it ...
First global map of rockfalls on the Moon
Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, ...
New study provides maps, ice favorability index to companies looking to mine the moon
Credit: University of Central Florida The 49ers who panned for gold during California's Gold Rush didn't really know where they ...
Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised ...
New comet discovered by ESA and NASA solar observatory
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO In late May and early June, Earthlings may be able to glimpse Comet SWAN. The comet is currently ...
Where neutrinos come from
Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black holes in far-off quasarsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian astrophysicists have come ...
Hayabusa2 reveals more secrets from Ryugu
Ryugu's interaction with the sun changes what we know about asteroid historyCredit: © 2020 Morota et al. In February and ...
Hubble watches comet ATLAS disintegrate into more than 2 dozen pieces
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and D. Jewitt (UCLA) These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken ...
New formation theory explains the mysterious interstellar object ‘Oumuamua
A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of the first known interstellar object ...
Astrophysicists wear 3D glasses to watch quasars
Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO) A team of researchers from Russia and Greece has shown a way to determine ...
What if mysterious ‘cotton candy’ planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, 'cotton candy like' exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have ringsCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel ...
The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
Credit: StarPlan, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of ...
Tiny, ancient meteorites suggest early Earth’s atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide
Credit: Donald Brownlee/University of Washington Very occasionally, Earth gets bombarded by a large meteorite. But every day, our planet gets ...