. Scientific Frontline: Space Science
Showing posts with label Space Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Science. Show all posts
Monday, June 29, 2026

New Horizons Maps Solar Wind Slowing in Space

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An SwRI-led study sheds light on the deceleration of the solar wind as it journeys away from the Sun and interacts with and picks up interst...
Monday, June 22, 2026

Forecasting the Heliosphere's Boundaries

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To understand and define the boundaries of our heliosphere, SwRI researchers collaborated with other scientists to use existing numerical si...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Planets need more water to support life than scientists previously thought

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This image of Venus taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist’s depiction of three possible atmospheres on a rec...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Human sperm may get lost in space

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Extraterrestrial Sperm Navigation The Co...
Monday, March 23, 2026

'Space Archaeology' Reveals First Dynamic History of a Giant Spiral Galaxy

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An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, stirring up sta...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Exoplanets: Conditions suitable for life on distant moons

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A realistic depiction of a free-floating gas giant planet and its Earth-like moon  Image Credit: © Dahlbüdding/DALL-E Scientific Frontline: ...
Monday, January 26, 2026

What Is: Cosmic Event Horizon

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The Final Boundary An illustration of the Cosmic Event Horizon. Unlike the Observable Universe, which is defined by light that has reached u...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Space Science: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated (Gemini) Space Science is the multifaceted scientific discipline dedicated to the explorat...
Monday, October 6, 2025

We need a solar sail probe to detect space tornadoes earlier, more accurately

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An artist’s rendering of the spacecraft in the SWIFT constellation stationed in a triangular pyramid formation between the sun and Earth. A ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Astrochemists Determined the Ratio of Methane in the Gas and Dust of a Protostar

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According to Anton Vasyunin, scientists have obtained important information about the composition of interstellar ice. Photo Credit: UrFU pr...

A Super-Earth laboratory for searching life elsewhere in the Universe

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In green, the habitable zone in the orbit of planet HD 20794. Image Credit: (Dumusque et al. 2025) © Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) Thirty ye...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Signs of life detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons

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An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus depicts hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust that allow...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Icy impacts: Planetary scientists use physics and images of impact craters to gauge the thickness of ice on Europa

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Brandon Johnson and his team study impact craters around the solar system for clues about planetary bodies’ history and composition. Photo C...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Explaining a supernova’s ‘string of pearls’

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The simulation shows the shape of the gas cloud on the left and the vortices, or regions of rapidly rotating flow, on the right. Each ring r...

Rethinking galactic origins through heavy-element mapping challenges conventional theory

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Galactic gas shows varying heavy element distribution: blue indicates scarcity, red indicates richness. Heavy elements are less abundant in ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Juno Spacecraft Measures Oxygen Production on Jupiter's Moon, Europa

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For the first time, SwRI scientists used the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument to definitively detect oxygen and hyd...

Groundbreaking survey reveals secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars

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This research brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets forming around them in spectacular discs. Thi...
Monday, March 4, 2024

Water May Have Flowed Intermittently in Martian Valleys for Hundreds of Millions of Years

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Detail of an unnamed valley network on Mars. Impact craters are marked with blue and red circles. Craters marked in red postdate the valley ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Biomolecules from Formaldehyde on Ancient Mars

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Diagram showing the formation of formaldehyde (H2CO) in the warm atmosphere of ancient Mars and its conversion into molecules vital for life...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Metal scar found on cannibal star

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This artist’s impression shows the magnetic white dwarf WD 0816-310, where astronomers have found a scar imprinted on its surface as a resul...