Researchers have found water vapour in the disc around a young star, which is exactly where planets may be forming. Water is a key ingredient for life on Earth and…
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Moon lander Odysseus has a new home and brings an artistic project along for the ride
Collage of The Earthling Project and Odysseus’s lunar landing. Credit: Intuitive Machines The moon lander Odysseus, known as Odie, touched down on the moon’s surface on February 22, becoming the…
Astronomers discover new Saturn-sized exoplanet
Light curves of TOI-1135 for the eight sectors of TESS. Credit: Díaz et al., 2024. An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a solar-type…
The automated method helps researchers quantify uncertainty in their predictions
Pollsters trying to predict presidential election results and physicists searching for distant exoplanets have at least one thing in common: They often use a tried-and-true scientific technique called Bayesian inference.…
Study determines the original orientations of rocks drilled on Mars
MIT geologists determined the original orientation of many of the bedrock samples collected on Mars by the Perseverance rover, depicted in this image rendering. The findings can give scientists clues…
Using AI to Enhance Satellite Imagery to Monitor Our Planet
A new method to assess different satellite designs using a powerful AI technique to monitor our planet from space has been released. Designing and operating Earth observation satellites involves trade-offs between…
What ended the ‘dark ages’ in the early universe? New Webb data just brought us closer to solving the mystery
Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ivo Labbe (Swinburne) / Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) / Alyssa Pagan (STScI) About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was…
Mars had its own version of plate tectonics
Topographic data are draped over infrared image data showing complex tectonic structures and volcanic deposits in the Eridania region of Mars. Warm colors are higher elevation. Credit: NASA/Mars Odyssey/HRSC Plate…
Heaviest pair of black holes ever seen weighs 28 billion times more than the sun
Two supermassive black holes found in collision-created “fossil galaxies” are so massive that they refuse to collide and merge. The discovery could explain why, although supermassive black hole mergers are…
Night-shining cloud mission ends; yields high science results for NASA
NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission, seen in this visualization, contributed to NASA’s understanding of the region that borders between Earth’s atmosphere and space. Credit: NASA After…
