Perseverance’s Latest Mars Rock Sample Contains Curious Greenish Mineral
The Perseverance rover, which is still pootling around Mars sciencing the shit out of it, has just locked and loaded its third sample to bring…
Astronomy
The Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse in 600 Years Is Happening This Week. Here’s How to Watch
The Sun, Earth, and Moon will nearly perfectly align this week, resulting in a partial lunar eclipse when Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon. It…
Russia Blows Up Satellite, Causing ISS Astronauts to Shelter from Debris
The Russian military has used a missile to destroy one of its own satellites, resulting in space debris that poses a threat to everyone in…
09 Piscium – a Binary or Multiple Star System
09 Piscium is a variable giant star in the Pisces constellation. It is a yellow-hued G-type main-sequence star 108 light-years away in the zodiac constellation…
Dark-matter Free Galaxies are being discovered
Dark matter is a hypothetical type of matter that is thought to account for approximately 85 percent of all matter in the universe. Its presence…
A Supernova Explosion is Caused by a Stellar Collision
The Very Large Array Sky Survey provided astronomers with the first clue that eventually revealed a dramatic story: the remnant of a long-dead star had…
109 Piscium b – an Extrasolar Planet
109 Piscium b is an extrasolar planet with a long period discovered in orbit around 109 Piscium. It was discovered on November 14, 1999, as…
TRAPPIST-1e – a Terrestrial Exoplanet
TRAPPIST-1 e is a terrestrial exoplanet in the habitable zone of an M-type star. It is a solid, Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone…
Proxima Centauri b – an Exoplanet
Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. It is an exoplanet that orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest…
LHS 1140 – a Red Dwarf
LHS 1140 is a red dwarf in the Cetus constellation. It’s an M dwarf with two transiting planets with orbital periods of 3.77 and 24.7…
LHS 1140 b – a massive and dense rocky planet
LHS 1140 b is a massive, dense rocky planet orbiting within the red dwarf LHS 1140’s conservative habitable zone. It is an exoplanet that orbits…
Magnetic Structures Near a Supermassive Black Hole Revealed in New Images
A new image of the region closest to the supermassive black hole in the galaxy’s center, Messier 87 (M87), has revealed vital data about the…
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