The Perseverance Rover has arrived at Mars’ Ancient River Delta
Perseverance, NASA’s life-hunting robot The Mars rover has now passed a significant mission milestone. The Perseverance rover has recently been racing over Mars’ surface at…
Astronomy
GJ 667 C f – a Super-Earth Exoplanet
GJ 667 C f is an exoplanet that circles an M-type star. It is an extrasolar planet that orbits the star Gliese 667 C in…
Carbonic and Orthocarbonic Acids, for example, could be found in the Depths of Uranus, Neptune, and their Satellites
Chemists from MIPT and Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) used computer modeling to determine which compounds might be present in the interiors…
Exoplanet KELT-4Ab Discovered in a Triple Stellar System
Multiple star systems are relatively prevalent in our universe, with estimates indicating that almost half of all stars are a part of one. However, discovering…
According to a Microlensing Study, the most Common Outer Planets are Neptune-Mass
According to a new statistical study of planets discovered using a technique called gravitational microlensing, Neptune-mass worlds are the most prevalent type of planet to…
Giant Planets may Reach Maturity much Sooner than Previously Thought, According to a New Study
The masses of the giant planets of the V1298 Tau system, which is only 20 million years old, have been measured by an international team…
A Nearby Star may Explain why Our Sun has Been Without Sunspots for the Past 70 Years
The number of sunspots on our Sun generally ebbs and flows in an 11-year cycle, but scientists have been baffled for three centuries by an…
Gliese 667C – Part of a Triple Star System
Gliese 667C is a well-studied neighboring star, one of three stars in a triple system. An international team of scientists used new studies of Gliese…
Curiosity Has Just Taken A Close-Up Look At Some Pretty Weird Mars Terrain
In the Gale Crater on Mars, the Greenheugh pediment is a fascinating plain. NASA’s Curiosity rover has been gently studying some really cool-looking terrains discovered…
Cracking Ice Created Enceladus’s Geysers – And the Opportunity to Look For Life
The geyser curtains on Enceladus found by the Cassini spacecraft in 2006 have been explained. These geysers allow the ocean under Saturn’s tiny moon Titan…
Big Bird Was Almost On Board Challenger Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its mission on January 28, 1986, killing all seven men on board. If the early intentions…
New Images Reveal Mysteries of Ghostly ORCs in Space
Over the decades, radio telescope observations of the cosmos have uncovered several anomalies. The cosmos is full of strange things, from pulsars to fast-radio bursts.…
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