Best Evidence to Date of How and When the Milky Way Came Together
Aging individual stars helped date an early merger event. The best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky Way came together,…
Aging individual stars helped date an early merger event. The best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky Way came together,…
Researchers report that they can detect showers from the debris in the path of comets that pass close to Earth orbit and return as infrequently…
The gases released from meteorite samples heated in a high-temperature furnace can tell scientists about the initial composition of the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. In…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama while atop “Mont Mercou,” a rock formation that offered a view into Gale Crater below. The panorama…
The evolving periodicity of the brightness of certain types of stars can now be described mathematically. Not all stars shine brightly all the time. Some…
NASA launched one of its largest sounding rockets Sunday from an East Coast facility in an experiment led by a space physics professor from the…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in the giant planet’s atmosphere known as “Clyde’s Spot” during its 33rd low pass over…
Earth’s nitrogen attributed to rapid growth of moon- to Mars-sized bodies. According to Rice University scientists, the possibilities for life on a particular planet rely…
Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their colleagues from the University of Graz & the Kanzelhöhe Observatory (Austria) and the…
NASA conducted its fourth RS-25 single-engine hot fire of the year May 20, a continuation of its seven-part test series to support the development and…
Are we alone in the universe? Since 1959, the famed SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program has been trying to answer this question. American astronomer…
The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be a very…
China’s Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet….
Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle A NASA team has found that organic, or carbon-containing, salts are likely present on Mars, with…
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been studying the Red Planet…
As part of the Artemis program, NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other…
International collaboration, under the aegis of Berkeley Lab, aims for 3D map of the universe, unraveling of mysterious ‘dark energy.’ A five-year quest to map…
The nearby Orion Bar is a typical example of a region influenced by young, massive stars Spectacular supernova explosions have been known to shape the…