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…
Category: Space
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…
First US moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown
This image provided by Intuitive Machines shows a view from the Odysseus lunar lander made with a fisheye lens on Feb. 22, 2024. Before its power was depleted, Odysseus sent…
Twente Consortium Develops Vibration-free Cooling for Measuring Gravitational Waves
Observations of gravitational waves by existing observatories and the new Einstein Telescope are made with laser beams. These are sent into ten-kilometre-long tunnels in two directions and reflected by mirrors…
Do We Have Cosmic Dust to Thank for Life on Earth?
It might be that what set prebiotic chemistry in motion and kept it going in the early days of the Earth was dust from outer space accumulating in holes melted…
Astronomers reveal a new link between water and planet formation
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have found water vapor in the disk around a young star exactly where planets may be forming. Water is a key ingredient for life on…
