How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that comets could have delivered them. Now, researchers from the University of Cambridge have…
Category: Astronomy
NASA: Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope,…
Decarbonizing Light-Duty Transportation in the US: Strategies to Achieve Goal
One of the goals outlined by the Biden administration’s National Climate Task Force in 2021 was to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. Transportation,…
NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid
There is more to the “marvelous” asteroid Dinkinesh and its newly discovered satellite than first meets the eye, as NASA’s Lucy mission revealed. As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft continued to return data…
NASA’s Juno: Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers
The Juno mission finding offers deeper insights into the long-debated internal structure of the gas giant Jupiter. Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the…
Record-Smashing Black Hole Born in Universe’s Infancy
An international team of astrophysicists, including Princeton’s Andy Goulding has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James…
Scientists Find 14 New Transient Objects in Space by Peering Through a Galaxy “magnifying glass”
MU researcher Haojing Yan and a team of scientists make the discovery by studying the “Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster” using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. An international team of scientists,…
World-First Zero Space Debris Charter Goes Live
More satellites were launched in the last few years than the entire six decades of space exploration. 130 million pieces of space debris larger than a millimetre orbit Earth, threatening…
First Images from Euclid – Journey Into Cosmic Web Begins
The Euclid mission is the first to deliver images from nearby regions of the Universe. The spacecraft can record the data from an area of the sky more than one…
NASA’s ‘Occult’ Science For Weather Forecasters
Radio occultation, pioneered by NASA for other planets, offers cheaper, better Earth weather data. Spire Global currently has the most radio occultation satellites in orbit, having outfitted 40 of its…
