Asteroids Appear Rougher when they Travel through Space Dust
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, scientists discovered something unexpected: the asteroid’s surface was covered in large boulders rather than the smooth…
Astronomy
A Dormant Black Hole outside our Galaxy is discovered by ‘Black Hole Police’
A team of international experts known for debunking several black hole discoveries has discovered a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, our neighbor…
Porosity of the Moon’s Crust Reveals the History of Bombardment
Researchers discovered that the moon was highly porous early in its history, which was most likely caused by early, massive impacts that shattered much of…
Super-Earth Skimming the Red Dwarf’s Habitable Zone
A super-Earth planet has been discovered near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star 37 light-years away. This is the first discovery made by…
Kitt Peak Observatory Burned By Wildfires, Telescopes’ Status Unknown
The Contreras Wildfire swept across the southwest ridge of Kitt Peak, Arizona, on Friday, June 17, destroying four research telescopes at the National Observatory, which…
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti Shares Amazing Gravity Cosplay in Space
Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), has done it once more. She had previously replicated a memorable moment from the Sandra…
BepiColombo Is Ready To Fly By Mercury Again This Week
On June 23, BepiColombo will pass barely 200 kilometers (124 miles) over Mercury’s surface, taking use of the planet’s gravity to slow down and move…
The Origins of Earth as Revealed by a Martian Meteorite
What are the similarities between Mars and Iceland? Not so much these days. However, it’s possible that the Red Planet had a crust similar to…
Arabian Water was Briefly Present Mars’s Terra
Water was once present in a region of Mars known as Arabia Terra, according to scientists. Ari Koeppel, a Ph.D. candidate at Northern Arizona University,…
Possibly a Model for Life on Mars
Microbes extracted from surface sediment near Lost Hammer Spring, Canada, about 900 kilometers south of the North Pole, could provide a blueprint for the types…
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