A Water-covered Extrasolar World
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on…
Astronomy
Two New Temperate Rocky Worlds have been Discovered
An international research team including astronomers at the University of Birmingham, has just announced the discovery of two “super-Earth” planets orbiting LP 890-9, a small,…
Astronomers demonstrate how the Terrain Changes on Icy Comets
With an eye toward a possible return mission years in the future, Cornell University astronomers have shown how smooth terrains – a good place to…
Creating Nanodiamonds from Bottle Plastic
What goes on inside planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team headed by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock,…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Explores the Geologically Diverse Landscapes of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a…
Persistence Uncovers the Most Detailed Mars Panorama Ever
We weren’t prepared for the amazing mosaic of Mars that NASA’s Perseverance was able to capture, which was made up of 1,118 separate frames stitched…
V4046 Sagittarii – K-type main-sequence star
V4046 Sagittarii is a constellation. It is a young binary star system made up of two K-type main-sequence stars. The two stars are approximately 271…
What You Should Know About NASA’s Spacecraft Colliding With An Asteroid This Month
In only two weeks, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will crash into Dimorphos, a tiny moonlet orbiting the bigger asteroid Didymos, to see…
Beautiful New Images From the Orion Nebula Will Help JWST Uncover Star Birth Secrets
The majority of the objects the JWST has observed are so dim that even with binoculars, let alone the naked eye, they are impossible to…
Feel Like You’re Flying On Mars With New Colored Images from Ingenuity
After being grounded for more than two months because of dust, subfreezing temperatures, and limited power as Jezero Crater experienced winter, NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity,…
China Finds a New Moon Mineral That May Someday Power Fusion Reactors
According to reports by Chinese official media, a new material found on the Moon has spurred China to announce plans to undertake three uncrewed missions…
Watch It All Happen Here as Bezos’s New Shepherd Rocket Aborts Its Launch Mid-Flight
The launch of the New Shepherd mission today did not go as planned since it aborted due to a “mid-flight anomaly,” but there is no…
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