In Order to Explore Mars and Other Planets, we Will use Space Helicopters
For the Mars Perseverance mission, NASA scientists decided to try something novel: in addition to sending a rover, they would also send up a small…
Astronomy
Middle Corona of the Sun is First Imaged in UV
A star’s corona is the outermost layer of its atmosphere. It is made of plasma. The Sun’s corona extends millions of kilometers into space above…
Antihelium Nuclei as Galactic Messengers
What causes galaxies to form, and what holds them together? Astronomers believe that dark matter is important. However, it has not yet been possible to…
Mars’s Whirlwind is Captured on Audio for the First Time by Researchers
ANI, December 14, Washington (US): The first functional microphone on the surface of Mars was installed in the rover Perseverance when it first touched down…
Two Temperate Super-Earths and “Cold Neptune” have been Discovered Orbiting Nearby Stars
A group lead by Paul Butler and Fabo Feng of Carnegie Mellon University found a collection of eight exoplanet candidates and five newly discovered exoplanets…
13–14 December Will see the Geminid Meteor Shower
According to NASA, the Geminid Meteor Shower will be at its peak this week, with the nights of December 13 and 14 offering the best…
Discovering the First Exposed Planetary Core Allows a View Inside Other Worlds
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have found the remaining core of a gas giant circling a far-off star, providing a hitherto unattainable look into…
260 Light Years Away, a New Study Describes an Atmosphere on “Hot Neptune” that “Shouldn’t Exist”
The atmosphere of a highly uncommon type of exoplanet known as a “hot Neptune” has been depicted for the first time thanks to data analysis…
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Takes a SpaceX Rocket to the Moon
After failing to launch on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, the privately developed Hakuto-R lunar lander and the small briefcase-sized CubeSat known as Lunar Flashlight are…
Astronomers Anticipated a Dying star, but Instead Found Something Else After a Terrifying Flash
Our knowledge of the most violent explosions in the Universe is being fundamentally altered by a sudden burst of light from a galaxy just over…
Scientists Have Discovered Hot Gas Bubbles Spinning Around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered indications of a “hot spot” surrounding Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
Venus Used to be More Like Earth, But Climate Change has Rendered it Uninhabitable
Venus, our sister planet, has a lot to teach us about climate change. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450°C (the temperature of an…
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