This artist’s illustration depicts the findings of a new study about the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy called Sagittarius A* (abbreviated as Sgr A*). As reported…
Category: Planetary Science
NASA’s Roman telescope to use rare events to calculate expansion rate of universe
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies, producing multiple images of a single distant supernova far behind it.…
Newly discovered carbon monoxide-runaway gap can help identify habitable exoplanets
The presence of a CO runaway gap can help in the identification of Earth-like planets. Credit: Tokyo Tech The search for habitable exoplanets involves looking for planets with similar conditions…
Asteroid that impacted near Berlin identified as a rare aubrite
Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc student and member of the Arbeitskreis Meteore, who participated in…
Antarctic volcano may hold clues to life on Mars
The volcano has been active for thousands of years, erupting most recently in 1967, 1969 and 1970, devastating British and Chilean bases and forcing the evacuation of an Argentine base.…
Asteroid making its closest approach to Earth this week
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On 4 February, asteroid 2011 MD will make its closest approach to the Earth. Though it will not be visible with the naked eye, the asteroid…
Ariane 6 test model cryogenic system disconnection
Credit: European Space Agency Teams from ESA, France’s space agency CNES and ArianeGroup successfully completed the disconnection and retraction of the Ariane 6 cryogenic systems on 30 January 2024. These…
Dream Chaser spaceplane passes vibration test
The first vessel of a planned line, Tenacity, was completed at the company’s factory in Louisville, Colorado in November and then shipped to NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky,…
First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalog of high-energy cosmic sources
This image shows half of the X-ray sky projected onto a circle (so-called Zenit Equal Area projection) with the center of the Milky Way on the left and the galactic…
