Perseverance's Mars rock samples may even hide salt crystal time pills. Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has started its perfect rock collection. The rover, which was created to search for indications of ancient life on Mars and package up product for a future sample-return mission, made its first two effective tasting maneuvers on...
In this image, we see the asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA and JPL The troughs on Vesta have long been a topic of scientific speculation. The asteroid Vesta is the second biggest asteroid in our planetary system. With a size of 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids played for long a...
In this image, Jupiter is shown in visible light for context underneath an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere’s infrared glow. The brightness of this upper atmosphere layer corresponds to temperatures, from hot to cold, in this order: white, yellow, bright red and lastly, dark red. The aurorae are the hottest regions and...
Hydrogen fuel stemmed from the sea could be a bountiful and sustainable substitute to fossil fuels; however, the potential power source has been limited by technological obstacles, consisting of exactly how to harvest it. Scientists at the University of Central Florida designed for the very first time a nanoscale material that can successfully divide seawater...
Our Galaxy galaxy will undoubtedly endure in its present kind of bit longer than some astronomers had believed, a new research study suggests. A view of the Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, with measurements of the motions of stars within the galaxy. This spiral galaxy is the nearest large neighbor of our Milky Way. (Image...
An artist’s conception of cold planet distribution throughout the Milky Way. For comparison, the cyan cone is the Kepler transit survey field. The inset shows an artistic conception of a planetary system in the Galactic bulge. Credit: Osaka University Researchers led by Osaka University and NASA found that the distribution of cold "planets" in the...
The fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy. Credit: MIT The results give a blueprint for finding such systems in deep space's quieter, emptier areas. By definition, dwarf galaxies are tiny and dim, with just a fraction of the stars located in the Milky...
How unusual is our Solar System? In about 30 years since planets were first discovered orbiting stars besides our Sun, we have found that planetary systems are prevalent in the Galaxy. However, most of them are pretty different from the Solar System we know. The worlds in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in...
Cosmos Display at the front of the Antikythera Mechanism, showing the positions of the Sun, Moon, and five planets as well as the phase of the Moon and the nodes of the Moon. Copyright © 2020 Tony Freeth Researchers at UCL have fixed a significant piece of the challenge that makes up the ancient Greek...
Credit: Lead Image © Mulderphoto / Adobe Stock In grade school, Charles DeLisi had his first indication of changes in the environment. He lived in a very wooded area, with trees filling his neighborhood, which was very fortunate since he loved to play in the forest. However, one of the saddest events of his...
