A Martian meteorite, designated Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 and nicknamed “Black Beauty,” weighing approximately 11 ounces. Caltech researchers have now discovered that the shock pressure necessary to launch rocks from…
Category: Space
New map of the universe’s cosmic growth supports Einstein’s theory of gravity
Cosmic growth: unlike ancient philosophers imagining the universe’s origins, modern cosmologists use quantitative tools to gain insights into its evolution and structure. Modern cosmology dates back to the early 20th…
New video series captures team working on NASA’s Europa Clipper
Engineers and technicians work on the towering main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A new video series lifts the curtain on the clean…
The Cosmochemist’s Guide to the Galaxy
At the end of 2020, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully returned about 5.4 grams of the asteroid Ryugu. NASA’s sister mission, OSIRIS-REx, is currently flying back to Earth with…
Environmental groups sue FAA over SpaceX Texas rocket launch
SpaceX’s Starship turns after its launch from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. The Federal Aviation Administration is being sued by wildlife and environmental groups over SpaceX’s…
The Young Cluster of Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe
An image of many oval and spiral shaped galaxies. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Takahiro Morishita (IPAC); Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Astronomers have looked back in time to the early…
A supermassive black hole and its jet, all in a single picture
This image shows the jet and shadow of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy together for the first time. The observations were obtained with a set…
China’s Mars rover finds signs of recent water in sand dunes
This Aug. 26, 2003, image made available by NASA shows Mars as it lines up with the Sun and the Earth. A new study suggests water on Mars may be…
Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts
Astronomers from McGill University are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky come from far…
Metal-poor stars are more life-friendly
Stars that contain comparatively large amounts of heavy elements provide less favourable conditions for the emergence of complex life than metal-poor stars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for…
