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…
Category: Planetary Science
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…
Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
Scientists are now hoping that the asteroid will smash into the Moon. A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing…
Ultralight dark matter could explain early black hole formation
This is an artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxy. It will eventually become an extremely bright quasar…
KiDS dataset doesn’t shake up cold dark matter model after all, say researchers
The OmegaCAM camera lies at the heart of the VST. It is built around 32 CCD detectors that together create 268-megapixel images. The camera contains extra CCDs to control the…
