Credit: BFA / Warner Bros Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message at its heart. The novels and movies are set on the desert planet of…
Category: Planetary Science
Our survey of the sky is uncovering the secrets of how planets are born
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/C. Ginski, A. Garufi, P.-G. Valegård et al. When we look out to the stars, it is…
Businesses are ready for April’s total solar eclipse with celestial-themed doughnuts and beer
A donut with toppings representing an eclipse is displayed at the Donut Dude shop on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Liberty Township, Ohio. Businesses are capitalizing on the April 8,…
Scientists propose a new method to search for light dark matter
A map of dark matter from 2021 using weak gravitational lensing data set. Credit: Dark Energy Survey. darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-results-papers/. New research in Physical Review Letters (PRL) has proposed a novel method…
NASA Armstrong updates 1960s concept to study giant planets
The lifting body aircraft on Rogers Dry Lake, near what is now NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, include, from left, the X-24A, the M2-F3, and the HL-10.…
Evolved adapter for future NASA space launch system flights readied for testing
Credit: NASA/Sam Lott A test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA’s more powerful version of its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket arrived at Building 4619 at NASA’s Marshall…
Condor telescope reveals a new world for astrophysicists
A view created by Condor and computer technologies of extremely faint shells of ionized gas surrounding the dwarf nova Z Camelopardalis. Credit: Condor Team A new telescope called the “Condor…
The moon’s moment in the sun
2024 Total Solar Eclipse shadow path map, built using datasets from several NASA missions. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On April 8, 2024, much of North America will experience a…
Jupiter’s moon Europa produces less oxygen than we thought—it may affect our chances of finding life there
Europa seen in true colour (left) and false colour (right). Credit: NASA Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has long been thought of as one of the most habitable worlds in the…
Pentagon says no evidence of secret US work on alien tech
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Has the United States confirmed sightings of alien craft, or worked to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology? A more than 60-page Pentagon report released Friday says no, pouring…
