A strong quake in the last year of the NASA Mars InSight mission enabled researchers at ETH Zurich to determine the global thickness and density of the planet’s crust. On…
Category: Astronomy
Going to the dark side: helping NASA understand moon’s origins
Over the next five years, Yale geophysicist Jun Korenaga will be part of a scientific project funded by NASA to study the origin and early development of the Earth’s moon.…
Are Earth and Venus the only volcanic planets? Not anymore.
Imagine an Earth-sized planet that’s not at all Earth-like. Half this world is locked in permanent daytime, the other half in permanent night, and it’s carpeted with active volcanoes. Astronomers…
Hubble telescope finds double quasar in early universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made an unexpected discovery — a pair of gravitationally bound quasars inside two merging galaxies that existed when the universe was just three billion years old.…
Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth possible. This…
Laboratory solar flares reveal clues to bursts of high-energy particles from space
Simulating solar flares on a scale the size of a banana, U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers at Caltech have parsed out how these massive explosions blast potentially harmful energetic particles and X-rays into…
NASA’s Perseverance Images May Show Record of Wild Martian River
Years ago, scientists noticed a series of curving bands of layered rock within Jezero Crater that they dubbed “the curvilinear unit.” They could see these layers from space but are…
Sun, Moon and Earth aligned: 2023 total eclipse at sea, what it was like to witness it
The fascinating story about witnessing the 2023 total eclipse at sea, off the coast of Australia. As the Co-Director of Swinburne’s Space Technology and Industry Institute, I can apply my…
Networking infrastructure for satellite constellations, through a new partnership
The race is on to provide high speed satellite internet to the Earth’s most remote areas. New tech companies such as Starlink, One Web, and Amazon’s Kuiper are competing with…
Aliens could soon detect life on Earth
New research suggests that aliens on nearby stars could detect Earth through radio signals leaked from the planet. Radiotelescope – illustrative photo. Image credit: Brenton Pearce via Unsplash, free license…
