Is there Liquid Water beneath the South Polar Cap of Mars?
Scientists measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures at temperatures as low as -145 degrees Fahrenheit to help confirm that salty water exists between grains of…
Astronomy
On Mars, an Explosive Volcanic Eruption created a Rare Mineral
Rice University, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and the California Institute of Technology have solved a mystery that has baffled the Mars research community since NASA’s…
Earth and Mars were Created from Material from the Inner Solar System
Cosmochemists have now presented the most comprehensive comparison of the isotopic compositions of Earth, Mars, and pristine building material from the inner and outer Solar…
A Novel Method for Discovering Exoplanets
A large number of exoplanets have been discovered in recent years orbiting single ‘normal’ stars. According to new research, there may be exceptions to this…
In a Milky Way Satellite Galaxy, Astronomers find a strangely Massive Black Hole
The McDonald Observatory at The University of Texas at Austin has discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of Leo I, one of…
Gemini North discovers a Faint Fossil Galaxy on the Outskirts of Andromeda
The sharp eyes of an amateur astronomer examining archival data processed by NSF’s NOIRLab’s Community Science and Data Center led to the discovery of an…
A Martian Meteorite challenges the theory of Planet Formation
A Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traveled through interplanetary space before…
The Atmosphere of an Exoplanet is Complex and Exotic
An international team of researchers from the Universities of Bern and Geneva, as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS, examined…
Brand-New Multi-Planet System Discovered Just 10 Parsecs from Earth
One of the nearest multi-planet systems to our own has been identified by a team of astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The…
Astonishingly Bright “Super Crab” Pulsar Is So Young It’s practically A Teenager
In 2018, the first Very Large Array sky scan discovered an object called VT 1137-0337 in a galaxy 395 million light-years distant that looks to…
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