Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates
Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermiaCredit: JAXA/NASA Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as ...
A galaxy’s stop-and-start young radio jets
Very long baseline array reveals object's historyCredit: Lister, et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF In this image, made with the National ...
NASA missions explore a ‘TIE Fighter’ active galaxy
Credit: NRAO Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has ...
Tracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprint
Scientists confirm the presence of acetonitrile in a distant interstellar gas cloud using a radio telescopeCredit: Tokyo University of Science ...
Ground segment testing a success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Northrop Grumman Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...
Observing ancient neutrinos
Super-Kamiokande gets an upgrade to see neutrinos from ancient supernovaeCredit: © 2020 Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), ...
The age of the Earth’s inner core revised
Credit: NASA/ Gary A.Glatzmaier By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have ...
Hubble snaps close-up of comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (California Institute of Technology), A. Pagan (STScI) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the ...
Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Pagan (STScI), and Q. Zhang (Caltech) NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on ...
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
Credit: Amit Shukla / Indian Institute of Technology Indore Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that ...
Research team develops the first physics-based method for predicting large solar flares
Credit: Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University Solar flares emit sudden, strong bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun's ...
Greenland ice sheet shows losses in 2019
AWI researchers confirm record ice losses in Greenland in 2019 based on data from the GFZ/NASA satellite mission GRACE Follow-OnCredit: ...
Microscopic deformation of a neutron star inferred from a distance of 4500 light-years
Credit: Sudip Bhattacharyya Imagine that the size of a bacterium is measured from a distance of about 4500 light-years. This ...
Researchers measure the global magnetic field in solar corona for the first time
Credit: YANG Zihao and TIAN Hui The Sun is a magnetized star. Its magnetic field is essentially three dimensional and ...
Deep learning will help future Mars rovers go farther, faster, and do more science
NASA JPL team uses TACC's Maverick2 system to develop software, trains modelsCredit: NASA's Mars rovers have been one of the ...
The most sensitive instrument in the search for life in space comes from Bern
Credit: © University of Bern, Image: Andreas Riedo The question of whether life exists beyond the Earth is one of ...
NASA’s Webb to study quasars and their host galaxies in three dimensions
Credit: Credits: STScI Supermassive black holes, which likely reside at the centers of virtually all galaxies, are unimaginably dense, compact ...
Under pressure, nontoxic salt-based propellant performs well
Credit: Aerospace Engineering, Grainger Engineering In smaller spacecraft such as CubeSat satellites, a salt-based monopropellant is showing promise. It can ...
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows
Credit: Graphic courtesy Jesse Miller CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star, brighter than a ...
