NASA Orbiter Spots Chinese Rover and Tracks on Mars
From orbit, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected some really cool stuff. Its acute sight can identify a lot, from changing sands to mystery…
Astronomy
New JWST “Selfie” Shows Its 18 Mirror Segments Perfectly Aligned
JWST is almost ready to begin peering into the universe with a sharpness that has never been seen before. The incredible telescope evaluation image from…
WASP-103 b – a Gas Giant Exoplanet
WASP-103 b is a gas giant exoplanet in the habitable zone of an F-type star. It has a mass of 1.49 Jupiters, takes 0.9 days…
How the Search for Axions is being Narrowed by Light from Black Holes
The search for a hypothetical subatomic particle that could indicate new physics has narrowed slightly, due to light spinning around a massive black hole in…
WASP-103 – an F-type Main-sequence Star
WASP-103 is an F-type main-sequence star in the constellation Hercules that is 1,800 100 light-years (550 ± 30 parsecs) distant. It has a surface temperature of…
Scientists are Puzzled as to Why Neptune is Cooling
Observations spanning two decades revealed an unexpected cooling of the solar system’s most distant planet, Neptune, during its astronomical summer. Neptune orbits the sun at…
Kepler-69b – an Innermost Planet
Kepler-69b is the Kepler-69 system’s innermost planet. It’s most likely a super-Earth or a mini-Neptune. It is an exoplanet similar to Neptune that orbits a…
Ancient Zircon Minerals from Mars Reveal the Red Planet’s Mysterious Internal Structure
The uranium-bearing mineral zircon is a common component of Earth’s continental crust, and it can reveal details about the continents’ age and origin, as well…
The Mars Perseverance Rover Offers a Front-Row Seat to the Landing and the First Audio Recording of the Red Planet from NASA
As the spacecraft fell, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars on Feb. 18, a new video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover records…
The Largest Spinning Objects in Space may be Cosmic Filaments
The ‘Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall,’ found in November 2013, is the largest known structure in the Universe. This object is a galactic filament, a huge…
Whoops, Three “Planets” Are Actually Small Stars
According to a new analysis, at least three of the objects previously thought to be planets circling other stars are actually tiny stars. These aren’t…
Kepler-69 – a G-type Main-sequence Star
Kepler-69 is a G-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus, around 2,430 light-years (750 parsecs) from Earth. On April 18, 2013, it was revealed that…
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