From Russia Today A meteor which put on a spectacular show as it sped across Russia’s Urals region was caught on camera lighting up the night sky as it erupted…
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Mars’ water was mineral-rich and salty
New study finds surface waters on early Mars may have been habitable for microbial life Tokyo Institute of Technology Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in…
Astronomers reveal interstellar thread of one of life’s building blocks
ALMA and Rosetta map the journey of phosphorus ESO Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it…
NASA’s TESS mission uncovers its first world with two stars
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center In 2019, when Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, he joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,…
TESS Finds First Earth-Size Planet in the Habitable Zone
From NASA Jan. 7, 2020 In a galaxy 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado sits a planetary system named TOI 700. It is home to TOI 700 d, the…
Galactic Pyrotechnics From 23 Million Light Years Away
From NASA Dec. 31, 2019 Galactic Pyrotechnics From 23 Million Light Years Away A galaxy about 23 million light years away is the site of impressive, ongoing fireworks. Rather than…
NASA’s Moon to Mars Plans, Artemis Lunar Program Gets Fast Tracked in 2019
From NASA Dec. 23, 2019 RELEASE 19-095 In 2019, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Apollo 11 Moon landing, the most historic moment in space exploration, while also…
Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk
Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in Earth’s orbit threatening spacecraft safety American Institute of Physics WASHINGTON,…
Stellar Snowflake Cluster
From NASA Dec. 23, 2019 Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.…
New clues on dark matter from the darkest galaxies
A study by SISSA provides important information on its composition and on its interaction with luminous matter Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati They are called low-surface-brightness galaxies and it…
NASA’s Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery
great images~cr From NASA Dec. 12, 2019 NASA’s Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of…
The Return to Venus and What It Means for Earth
From NASA Venus hides a wealth of information that could help us better understand Earth and exoplanets. NASA’s JPL is designing mission concepts to survive the planet’s extreme temperatures and…
Scientists find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxies
Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters This figure illustrates structure in the simulated universe, in a box 200 million light-years on each side. It is color coded, using black, green, yellow,…
Glancing Back
From NASA Dec. 2, 2019 Just after its close flyby of Jupiter on Nov. 3, 2019, NASA’s Juno spacecraft caught this striking view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere as the spacecraft…
Black Hole Nurtures Baby Stars a Million Light-Years Away
From NASA Nov. 29, 2019 Black Hole Nurtures Baby Stars a Million Light-Years Away Back to Gallery Black holes are famous for ripping objects apart, including stars. But now, astronomers…
Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky
From NASA Nov. 26, 2019 Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky Full image and caption Dust storms are common on Mars. But every decade or so,…
Stars Are Being Born in the Depths of a Black Hole
From NASA Stars Are Being Born in the Depths of a Black Hole Located about 5.8 billion light years from Earth in the Phoenix Constellation, astronomers have confirmed the first…
Hubble studies gamma-ray burst with highest energy ever seen
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe — a blast of…
Hubble Spots a Curious Spiral
From NASA Nov. 15, 2019 Hubble Spots a Curious Spiral The universe is simply so vast that it can be difficult to maintain a sense of scale. Many galaxies we…
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