Perseverance Has a Pebble in Its Shoe
Few things are more aggravating than a stone stuck in your shoe that refuses to move. As the rover Perseverance discovered, this incredibly Earthly issue…
Astronomy
NASA Has Just Opened a Container of Potential Lunar Gasses Sealed For 50 Years
For the last 50 years, geologists have been slicing slivers from the lunar rocks of the Apollo missions for study, generating several significant discoveries in…
NASA Criticized For Removing Pronouns from Goddard Employees’ Virtual IDs
Employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, one of the agency’s key research centers, have complained on social media that their option to display pronouns…
Largest Ever Molecule in a Planet Forming Disk Has Been Discovered
A nine-atom organic molecule has been discovered inside a young star’s planet-forming disk. The material is dimethyl ether, the biggest molecule ever discovered in such…
PH2 b – a Gas Giant Exoplanet
The exoplanet PH2 b, also known as Kepler-86 b, is a gas giant that orbits a G-type star. It is an exoplanet that orbits the…
NASA’s New Horizons is Still Pioneering Science in the Kuiper Belt Years After Historic Flybys
To welcome in the new year, New Horizons made a spectacular flyby of a Kuiper Belt object. However, until a new batch of observations reaches…
PH2 – a G-type Star
PH2 is a Star. It is not a part of the Cygnus constellation outline, but it is within its boundaries. It is estimated to have…
Astronomers have Retraced the History of Our Galactic Surroundings for the First Time
The Earth is surrounded by hundreds of young stars in a 1,000-light-year-wide gap, but how did those stars form? Astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics…
A New Planet has been Discovered Around Proxima Centauri, Our Solar System’s Closest Star
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile discovered evidence of another planet around Proxima Centauri, our Solar System’s closest…
Psyche, the Asteroid’s Iron Giant, Could Be Less Iron Than Researchers Thought
According to a new study by experts from Brown and Purdue universities, the asteroid 16 Psyche, which NASA plans to visit with a spaceship in…
NASA Says Business As Usual, but Roscosmos Director Threatens End of ISS
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NASA has stated that the International Space Station (ISS) would continue to operate normally, collaborating with other international partners as…
Pluto’s Tantalizing Images Reveal a Dynamic Surface, but it won’t be Seen for Another 161 Years
In July 2018, the solar system aligned for a brief moment, allowing Earth to see Pluto’s fully illuminated disk, which will not happen again for…
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