Asteroid Bennu’s Chance of Hitting Earth has Just been Refined by NASA
NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission to study asteroid Bennu was a great success. It orbits the asteroid, collects samples to land and send home, and studies the space…
Astronomy
Building Vulnerability into your Workflow
I talked to my editor this week about the normal: the fear of the existence of Impostor Syndrome between the upcoming story, the future of…
NASA Scientists Suggest Life on Mars Could Be Nuclear-Powered
Because of its proximity and similarities to Earth, the possibility of life on Mars has piqued the interest of astrobiologists. To date, no evidence of…
Bezos’s Blue Origin Loses Lunar Lander Appeal as US Government Upholds NASA SpaceX Contract
Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin has lost appeal in April to challenge NASA’s decision to award only one lunar lander deal to rival SpaceX. The federal government…
Observations Reveal Mars still be Volcanically Active and Possibility for Habitable Conditions
New observations indicate that Mars may still be volcanically active, raising the prospect of habitable conditions on Mars’ near-surface in recent history. Ongoing research looks…
Mars’ Anatomy: Researchers Record and Analyze Marsquakes and Reveal its Interior
For the first time, scientists have been able to look inside Mars using seismic data. They measured the crust, mantle, and core to determine their…
A Unique Exoplanet has been Discovered by Satellite CHEOPS
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) exoplanet-hunting satellite CHEOPS, in which the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and other European institutions are participating, has unexpectedly…
What Makes Mercury’s Iron Core so Massive?
A new study challenges the widely held belief that Mercury has a large core in comparison to its mantle (the layer between a planet’s core…
The Properties of Aerosol particles Determine the Haziness of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Many exoplanets have opaque atmospheres that are obscured by clouds or hazes, making it difficult for astronomers to determine their chemical compositions. According to a…
The Discovery of Hidden Bridges between Galaxies is Revealed by a Dark Matter Map
A newly discovered map of dark matter in the local universe reveals several previously unknown filamentary structures connecting galaxies. The map, created by an international…
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