The Discovery of a Highly Unusual Black Hole Merger
It’s possible that two black holes will collide. When they are so close that they can no longer escape each other’s gravity, they will merge…
Astronomy
The Internal Ocean of Saturn’s Small Moon has been Discovered
‘Mimas’, Saturn’s innermost moon, could have been hiding an internal ocean. The evidence comes from NASA’s Cassini mission, which spent a decade exploring Saturn and…
NASA Is About To Open 50-Year-Old Sealed Lunar Sample from Apollo 17
Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan took a sample of lunar soil from the Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Moon in December 1972 and returned it to…
Material from Asteroid Ryugu Starts To Give Up Secrets of Early Solar System
Material from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission to Asteroid (162173) Ryugu returned to Earth just over a year ago. The first two studies reporting on…
Listen To the Peculiar Sounds of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Ganymede, Jupiter’s biggest moon, in June of last year. The scientists were able to get the closest…
Life in the Clouds of Venus Is Theoretically Possible, Future Missions Will Look for Signs
Since the phosphine discovery last year, there has been increased interest in Venus as a world with the possibility for life, not merely as an…
JWST Pushed Back Again! Will Its Launch Be a Christmas Miracle?
NASA has revealed that the JWST would delay once more, but just for a few days. It is likely that the launch will now take…
NASA’s Perseverance Has Discovered More Organics on Mars
For the past ten months, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has been on Mars, and scientific data are coming in. The finding of organic molecules in the…
Hidden Water May have Been Found at the Bottom of Mars’ Largest Canyon
Valles Marineris, the Solar System’s greatest canyon, is a tectonic fracture that has expanded by erosion and is characterized by neighboring channels that may have…
Best Views Captured Yet Reveal Stars Orbiting Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
A supermassive black hole is known as Sagittarius A* sits in the heart of the Milky Way. It has a mass of almost 4 million…
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Make Its Rocket Fuel from Thin Air
Elon Musk, who just voted Time magazine’s Person of the Year, has announced that SpaceX is launching a program to extract carbon dioxide from the…
Fossil Spiral Arms Found In the Outskirts of the Milky Way
The Gaia Space Observatory has revealed the motion of millions of stars in incredible detail, allowing astronomers to see patterns and discover shared origins and…
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