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…
Astronomy
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…
For The First Time Ever a Spacecraft Has “Touched the Sun”
One of NASA’s declared aims when it unveiled its probe to study the Sun from record near distances was to sample the solar corona, evocatively…
HD 126614 Ab – an Extrasolar Planet
HD 126614 Ab is an extrasolar planet that orbits the primary K-type star HD 126614 A, which is located in the constellation Virgo approximately 240…
HD 34445 g – a Gas Giant Exoplanet
HD 34445 g is a gas giant exoplanet in the habitable zone of a G-type star. HD 34445 g has a mass of 120.840 times…
Scientists Offer a New Explanation for the Strange Asymmetry on the Moon’s Far Side
The history of the Earth-Moon system is still a mystery. The two are thought to have originated when a Mars-sized body crashed with the proto-Earth,…
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