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Showing posts with label Space Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Science. Show all posts
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Long-sought binary star population found! Discovery could answer questions about hydrogen-poor supernova origins

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An artist’s conception of the hydrogen being stripped from one half of a binary system, leaving a very hot, helium rich exposed core that wi...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Ryugu Samples Illuminate Terrestrial Weathering Effects on Primitive Meteorites

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Optical images of the Ryugu sample (left) and the CI chondrite (Orgueil ; right). Image Credit: ©Kana Amano et al. A groundbreaking study co...
Monday, November 6, 2023

Mystery Resolved: Black Hole Feeding and Feedback at the Center of an Active Galaxy

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Fig. 1 An illustration depicting the distribution of interstellar medium in the active galactic nucleus based on the results of this observa...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

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Modeling by Cornell astronomers finds that telescopes could more easily detect an exoplanet with higher levels of atmospheric oxygen than mo...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The Remains of an Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth

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Video Credit: California Institute of Technology In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusua...

Meteors Can Be Affected by Massive Objects Within and Near the Solar System

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Superimposed images of FH1 flight recorded in Finland. Photo Credit: Maria Gritsevich Apparently interstellar meteors may be the result of a...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Giant planets cast a deadly pall

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Artist's depiction of a star system that is crowded with giant planets. Illustration Credit: NASA/Dana Berry Giant gas planets can be ag...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago

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Photo Credit: NASA/JPL A new study found that Venus, a scorching wasteland of a planet according to scientists, may have once had tectonic p...

Deep learning speeds up galactic calculations

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A more efficient simulation. During a supernova simulation, (left) shows the prediction by a current simulation method. (right) shows the pr...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

A molten layer at the base of the Martian mantle ?

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Artist view of Mars interior structure showing a molten layer at the base of the mantle and above the core. The purple line shows the path f...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

UrFU Scientists Registered a Meteorite Weighing Almost 300 Kilograms

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Kapustin Yar meteorite Photo Credit: Courtesy of Ural Federal University Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Sibe...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Scientists and philosophers team up to study concept of evolution beyond biological context

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As Earth formed, new geologic processes, especially those related to the interaction of hot fluids with rock during igneous activity and pla...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

A new lens” into the Universe’s most energetic particles

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An example of a cosmic-ray extensive air shower recorded by the Subaru Telescope. The highlighted tracks, which are mostly aligned in simila...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

“Starquakes” could explain mystery signals

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Earthquake map. Data on earthquakes was taken from Japan’s Kanto region (including Tokyo and Narita) and Izumo in the Chugoku region (north ...

Removal of magnetic spacecraft contamination within extraterrestrial samples easily carried out

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PhD student Ji-In Jung, left, and Assistant Professor Sonia Tikoo examine a collection of lunar samples.  Photo Credit: Harry Gregory By dem...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Lethal Climate Change Millions of Years Ago Was Due to Volcanic Eruptions, Scientists Conclude

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Earth’s Geological History Tied to Astronomical Motions—Not Just the Planet’s Interior Illustration Credit: Scientific Frontline Climate cha...
Monday, October 9, 2023

New Model Explains Precious Metals in Earth’s Mantle

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Video Credit: Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Simone Marchi collaborated on a new study finding the first ge...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Astronomers Discover First Step Toward Planet Formation

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An image of the radio wave strength at a wavelength of 1.3 mm of the disk around the star DG Taurus, observed with ALMA. Unlike older protos...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Study suggests large mound structures on Kuiper belt object Arrokoth may have common origin

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The large mound structures that dominate one of the lobes of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth are similar enough to suggest a common origin, ...
Monday, October 2, 2023

SwRI scientists use Webb, Sofia telescopes to observe metallic asteroid

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Southwest Research Institute scientists are using telescopes to observe the Psyche asteroid in the infrared, providing context for the upcom...