Astrophysical Plasma
The naturally occurring plasmas that cover the solar system and beyond are studied by the group studying space, solar, and astronomical plasmas. Outside the Solar…
Astronomy
Exposing the Unexpected Chemical Complexity of Comet Chury
Comets are remnants of the formation of the sun, planets, and moons and are fossils from the distant past and the interior of our solar…
Researchers Build “Time Machine” Simulations to Examine the Lifecycle of Galaxy “Cities” in the Ancestors
According to a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, for the first time, scientists have developed simulations that accurately depict the whole life cycle of…
14 Herculis b – an Exoplanet
14 Herculis b is a gas giant exoplanet in the habitable zone of a G-type star. It is an exoplanet located in the constellation Hercules,…
Gravitational Waves for Particle Detection Near Black Holes
Black holes that rotate can produce ultra-light particle clouds. Now, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Amsterdam have demonstrated that these clouds would…
Why Does the Moon Look Close Some Nights and Far Away On Other Nights?
On some evenings, the Moon appears to be closer and larger than normal. A large circular thing gently creeping up behind my friend Nancy’s house,…
What Is the Current Population of Mars?
The Red Planet is practically seething with the pitter-patter of tiny robo wheels if you include rovers and landers in your population census. On Mars,…
Meet Victor Vescovo, the Deep Ocean Explorer Who Just Went To Space
Victor Vescovo was one of six members of Blue Origin’s New Shepherd-21 crew who went into space on June 4 for a suborbital journey. The…
JWST Got Hit By a Tiny Space Rock
The world’s most powerful space observatory confronts just one final threat: space rocks, after 14 torturous years of delays and surviving the white-knuckle anxiety of…
HD 164922 e – a Neptune-like Exoplanet
HD 164922 e is an exoplanet that resembles Neptune and orbits a G-type star. This Exoplanet revolves around the star HD 164922, which is 72…
Is Kombucha the Secret to Colonizing Mars?
Experimenters discovered that while Martian circumstances are unforgiving to kombucha cultures, a bacterium species inside the culture survives and maintains its potential to manufacture cellulose.…
Ingenuity Is Suffering From a Spot of Vertigo in Run-Up to Flight 29
This week, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has caused some issues for its Earth-based engineers after one of its crucial navigation sensors failed. But have no…
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