Jezero Crater, Mars, Rocks Show Signs of Prolonged Interactions with Water
The Perseverance rover and its team of scientists back on Earth have been working diligently to explore the crater’s floor ever since it touched down…
Astronomy
NASA Satellite discovers Evidence of Water on the Asteroid Bennu
After a two-year journey, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has discovered water on the asteroid Bennu. Bennu was chosen for investigation because it is a carbonaceous chondritic…
NASA Spacecraft discovers that Asteroid is simply Large Ball Pit
In 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft would go to Bennu, an asteroid roughly 200 million miles from Earth, land briefly, gather a small sample, and return…
NASA Developed a Powerful new Tool for Studying Dust
A payload on its way to the International Space Station could help researchers on Earth finally answer a long-standing climate conundrum. NASA launched a vital…
NASA Momentarily Shuts down Mars Helicopter Ingenuity to wait for Clear Dust
NASA’s Mars chopper is taking a vacation from its unprecedented operations on Mars’ surface. On Mars, it is currently winter and dust season. As a…
Betelgeuse’s Great Dimming Explained By Serendipitous Observations from Weather Satellite
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, suffered the so-called “Great Dimming” between late 2019 and early 2020. The brilliance of the star abruptly and dramatically decreased.…
As It Races Against Space Weather, the Satellite Avoids Space Junk
We have launched thousands of rockets and sent countless more satellites into orbit since the advent of the space age in the 1950s. Many are…
High-energy Neutrinos could be produced by Black Holes Tearing Apart Stars
When a star gets too close to a black hole, sparks fly. And, potentially, so do subatomic particles called neutrinos. A dramatic light show results…
HD 164922 c – an Exoplanet
HD 164922 c is an exoplanet that orbits the star HD 164922 in the constellation Hercules about 72 light-years from Earth. It is an exoplanet…
What the Voyager Space Probes Can Teach Humanity about Immortality and Legacy As They Sail Through Space for Trillions of Years
The human-made object Voyager 1 is the farthest away from Earth. It is currently over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar…
The Astronomical Study That Proved a Strange Passage of the Bible May Actually Be True
“Sun, stand motionless [Hebrew dôm] in Gibeon, and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon,” says a verse in the Bible. And the Sun remained motionless,…
Planets Around Two Stars Probably Didn’t Form Like Those in Our Solar System
Astronomers have gained fresh insights into how planets develop thanks to observations of a young binary star system. Planetary disks are cyclically sloshed about by…
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