Matteo Paz with Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum. Credit: California Institute of Technology Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in…
Category: Planetary Science
Scientists discover drier mantle on moon’s farside, offering potential insight on lunar evolution
Lunar sample return sample missions with associated water content estimates. Credit: Prof. Hu Sen’s group Chinese scientists have discovered that the moon’s mantle contains less water on the lunar farside…
Researcher proposes first-time model that replaces dark energy and dark matter in explaining nature of the universe
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a paper…
Blue Origin plans an all-female space flight—but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
Mae Carol Jemison was the first black woman to travel to space. Credit: NASA For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will…
Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles
In this image from video provided by SpaceX, a Dragon capsule carrying four space tourists prepares to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday,…
A chance alignment in Lupus
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 is situated 40…
