Perseverance Captures the first Sounds from Mars
According to scientists, the first audio recordings from Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would…
Astronomy
Ingenuity Takes Awesome Photos of Wreckage of Landing Gear That Delivered It to Mars
Perseverance’s parachute was discovered and photographed a few weeks ago, but due to the tiny helicopter that could, we now have an overhead view of…
Bacterial Cellulose has Potential to Support Microbial Life on Mars
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen investigated the chances of kombucha cultures surviving in Mars-like conditions. Kombucha is a drink, also…
A ‘Prenatal’ Protoplanet Challenges Planet Formation Theories
In astronomical theory, a protoplanet is a hypothetical eddy in a whirling cloud of gas or dust that condenses into a planet during the formation…
Kepler-10c – an Exoplanet
Kepler-10c is an exoplanet that orbits the G-type star Kepler-10, which is 608 light-years away in Draco. Kepler reported its finding in May 2011, while…
Methane could be the First Evident Sign of Life on other Planets
Earth had almost no atmosphere when it formed 4.6 billion years ago from a hot mix of gases and solids. The ground was molten. As…
Hubble Investigates Extreme Weather on Super-heated Jupiters
Astronomers have discovered bloated Jupiter-sized planets that are so close to their parent star that they are being roasted at temperatures well above 3,000 degrees…
Exoplanet Atmosphere Classification opens up a New Field of Research
A multinational team of researchers studied data from 25 exoplanets and discovered some correlations between atmospheric features such as heat profiles and chemical abundances. This…
The Worldwide Coordinated Quest for Dark Matter
An international team of researchers, led by the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), has…
New Assortment of Globular Clusters contains insights to Galaxy Evolution
Using images of Centaurus A, a neighboring elliptical galaxy, taken with the Gaia space telescope and ground-based equipment as part of the PISCeS survey, a…
How can Galaxies exist in the Absence of Dark Matter?
Astrophysicists report that when tiny galaxies collide with larger ones, the larger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter – matter that…
Solar Flares’ Mysterious Finger-like Properties are explained by Scientists
The Sun’s surface is a hive of activity. It contains electrically charged gases that produce zones of strong magnetic fields. These are known as magnetic…
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