Sharpest Earth-based Images of Jupiter’s Moons Europa and Ganymede
More spacecraft will soon be visiting Jupiter’s frigid moons Europa and Ganymede, which will undoubtedly reveal their mysteries. But planetary scientists aren’t just sitting around…
Astronomy
Methane-Producing Bacteria May Have Thrived Beneath The Surface Of Ancient Mars
The existence of life on Mars is still up for debate. Examining the Red Planet’s past and determining whether or not it ever had conditions…
Discovered: “Cataclysmic” Pair of Stars with Shortest Known Orbit
The majority of stars in the cosmos are found in pairs, occasionally after the most massive star has gone through its whole life cycle and…
Has Martian littered Reached New Heights, According to Ingenuity, Which Dropped Something From Its Foot?
You know how it is: something gets stuck to your foot, and when it finally falls off, you’re not sure what it was or whether…
The Best New Images Of Europa, Jupiter’s Moon, In 20 Years Thanks To Juno
The ice moon Europa of Jupiter was recently viewed by the Juno spacecraft from a distance of only 352 kilometers (219 miles). These initial photographs…
JWST Discovers the Farthest Star Clusters Ever Found Surrounding the “Sparkler Galaxy”
The Sparkler Galaxy, a galaxy 9 billion light years away, can be seen in the galaxy in JWST’s first deep field photograph. That’s not exceptionally…
Hubble and JWST Saw The Same Event, DART Slamming into an Asteroid, For The First Time
Hubble and JWST, two of the greatest space observatories, both recorded the moment NASA’s DART mission purposefully collided with an asteroid earlier this week. It…
Hubble Discovers The Barrier Preventing Nearby Galaxies From Dissolving
Although the Milky Way Galaxy is our cherished home, it can be a bully to smaller star clusters. The gravitational pull of a much larger…
Lunar Crater Timing Revealed by Tiny Glass Beads Could Be Related to Major Earth Impacts
It’s possible that death from the skies won’t happen just once. Instead, smaller asteroids might strike both the Earth and the Moon along with larger…
JWST Captured DART Colliding With an Astroid
DART, the first planetary defense test mission ever launched by NASA, made history this week when it purposefully collided with an asteroid to test the…
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