The similarity in composition of new and old lunar samples suggests a magma ocean covered the moon early in its history. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Data from India’s recent…
Category: Space
The means for mapping martian meteorites
Researchers have identified the specific locations from which most of the approximately 200 Martian meteorites originate. They’ve traced the meteorites to five impact craters within two volcanic regions on the…
Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the first simulation of its kind
Credit: Price et al. (2024) Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a…
New data on radiation allows missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa
Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission have used images from stellar cameras to map high-energy radiation at Jupiter’s moon Europa and find surprisingly low radiation on the side facing away from…
Could 2 NASA astronauts be stuck at the space station until next year? A decision is imminent
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral,…
NASA will decide Saturday if Boeing’s new capsule is safe enough to fly 2 astronauts back from space
This photo provided by NASA shows Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft which launched astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on…
Galaxies in dense environments tend to be larger, settling one cosmic question and raising others
Scientists have known that some galaxies reside in dense environments with many other galaxies nearby for decades. Others drift through the cosmos essentially alone, with few or no other galaxies…
Ancient duo of stars visiting from far reaches of the Milky Way discovered
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An unusual pair of 10-billion-year-old stars, formed when the Milky Way was young, are visiting from the farthest reaches of the galaxy, researchers have discovered. The…
New data on radiation show missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa are possible
This artist concept depicts the Juno spacecraft which arrived at Jupiter in 2016 after a five-year journey to study the giant planet. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL Scientists from…
Growing plants for space: securing Earth’s sustainable future
University of Adelaide researchers are helping humanity explore among the stars by developing off-Earth agriculture and––in the process––finding interstellar solutions that could transform plant cultivation here at home. Climate change…
