The mission has also demonstrated a range of additional capabilities in its 17 months in orbit, including detecting plumes of methane and carbon dioxide being emitted by landfills, oil facilities, and other…
Category: Astronomy
NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Def Look at Exploded Star
Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams in a new image from NASA’s…
NASA’s MAVEN Observes the Disappearing Solar Wind
In December 2022, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance” of a stream of charged particles constantly emanating off the Sun, known as…
Giant Doubts About Giant Exomoons
Discovery of giant exomoons around the planets Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b called into question. Just as it can be assumed that the stars in our Milky Way are orbited by planets,…
Next-gen Gravitational Wave Detectors Will Provide “Remarkable Scientific Payoff”
Next-generation gravitational wave detectors capable of revealing processes from the creation of our Universe obtainable by no other means are being developed by UK astronomers. Artist impression of the Cosmic…
Interpreting the Afterglow of a Black Hole’s Breakfast
An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. ALMA, located in the Chilean Atacama desert,…
Tracking Undetectable Space Junk – Technology Org
Colliding pieces of space debris emit electric signals that could help track small debris littering Earth’s orbit, potentially saving satellites and spacecraft. Satellite and spacecraft operators may finally be able…
Downloading NASA’s Dark Matter Data from Above the Clouds
Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system designed by scientists at the University of Sydney. The system…
New Dark Matter Theory Explains Two Puzzles in Astrophysics
Dark matter may be more vibrant than previously thought, UC Riverside study reports. Thought to make up 85% of matter in the universe, dark matter is nonluminous and its nature…
Cradle of Possible Earth-like Planets Found in Harsh Environment
Planets like our Earth could form even in the harshest known star-forming environments, drenched by hard UV light from massive stars. That is the main result of analyses of new…
