This Feb. 13, 2010 image provided by NASA shows Saturn’s moon Mimas and it’s large Herschel Crater, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The crater is 130 kilometers (80 miles) wide.…
Category: Planetary Science
Which came first: Black holes or galaxies?
An illustration of a magnetic field generated by a supermassive black hole in the early universe, showing turbulent plasma outflows that turn gas clouds into stars. Credit: ROBERTO MOLAR CANDANOSA…
Hubble spots a galaxy shrouded by stars
This Hubble image shows irregular galaxy ESO 245-5 located some of 15 million light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Messa This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a…
Telescopes show the Milky Way’s black hole is ready for a kick
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…
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…
