Top 10 Mars Discoveries Made By MAVEN In 1,000 Days In Orbit Around The Red Planet
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission spacecraft completed 1,000 days in orbit around the red planet on June 17.
NASA Says James Webb Space Telescope Science Targets Include Icy Moons, Galaxy Clusters, Distant Worlds
The successor to Hubble Space Telescope is a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency. It is scheduled to launch October 2018.
Astronauts’ Circadian Rhythm On International Space Station Surprises Scientists
Researchers predicted the lack of regular sunlight in space would lead to the body’s core temperature dropping, disrupting astronaut’s 24-hour internal clock.
Newly Formed Stars Can Have Magnetic Fields That Are Chaotic, ALMA Finds
It was thought earlier that a strong and stable magnetic field around young protostars kept the star-forming material in place.
Neanderthals, Homo Sapiens Likely Met Over 40,000 Years Ago In Modern-Day Czech Republic
Evidence found across 10 layers of sediment, ranging from 28,000 to 50,000 years ago, suggests the two human species may have met in the region.
Star Formation Happens In Pairs, Sun Had A Twin Too, Study Finds
The binary star systems either shrink or break apart — as in the case of the sun — within a million years after being born, a new study asserts.
Radio Emissions From Perseus Galaxy Cluster Provide New Insights Into Its ‘Mini-Halo’
About 30 known galaxy clusters have a radio structure within their centers, caused by superfast particles emitting radio waves. This structure is called a “mini-halo.”
Hubble Finds Massive Galaxies Aligned With Their Surroundings 10 Billion Years Ago
The most massive galaxies in the universe tend to cluster together and the orientation of those galaxies is aligned with other matter in their surroundings.
ALMA Finds Massive Stars Can Spin Slowly Because Gas Flow During Birth Takes Away Rotational Momentum
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile observed the gas flow around a baby star and the loss of rotational momentum.
NASA’s Cassini Shows Saturn Moon Iapetus And Its Two-Toned Contrasting Surface
Named after the Titan from Greek Mythology, it is the third-largest natural satellite of the gas giant and was discovered in October 1671.
How Old Is Jupiter? Meteorite Analysis Suggests Early Formation That Prevented Super-Earths In Solar System
Analysis of the composition of meteorites suggests that Jupiter formed very soon after the solar system came into existence.
Extinct Whale Ancestors Did Not Have Specialized Hearing, It Was Similar To Terrestrial Animals
Protocetes were a type of whale that lived both on land and in water, and were members of the cetacean family, which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
ALMA Finds Organic Compound, Associated With Life On Earth, In Early Stages Of Sun-Like Star Formation
Two different teams of scientists identified chemical signs of a compound associated with life on Earth near stars in early stages of their evolution.
Leonardo DiCaprio Working With Mexico, Carlos Slim To Protect Vaquita Porpoise
The marine mammal is critically endangered, with only about 30 individuals left in Mexico’s Gulf of California. The Oscar-winning actor has long been a champion of wildlife conservation.
Tesla Model X Recall: Software Update To Fix Airbag Issue In Right-Hand-Drive Cars
The problem reportedly affects only right-hand-drive cars and can be fixed with a software update the company is rolling out over the weekend.
On A Cosmic Real Estate Scale, Milky Way Lies In A Sparsely Populated Region
The region of space we inhabit has a much smaller number of galaxies, stars, and planets than the average voids in the universe.
Exploring The Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry To Explain Why Anything Exists In The Universe
Going by the Standard Model of physics, theoretically, all the matter in existence should have been annihilated by its anti-matter counterpart, and not have existed at all.
NASA’s Hubble Spots Universe’s Brightest Galaxies, Thanks To Gravitational Lensing
Gravitational lensing allowed the space telescope to image the galaxies at the peak of the universe’s star-making phase over 8 billion years ago.
A Planet Hotter Than Most Stars? Jupiter-Like Exoplanet KELT-9b May Be Just That
Astronomers discovered a superheated Jupiter-like exoplanet 650 light-years away, orbiting the massive star KELT-9 in the Cygnus constellation.
Toyota Ends Tesla Partnership, Working On ‘Flying Car’ With Cartivator
The world’s highest-selling ca rmaker will work on its own electric vehicles, as well as try develop a “flying car” with Japanese startup Cartivator.
SpaceX ISS Cargo Mission CRS-11 Live Stream: Watch Falcon 9 Take Off On NASA Mission, If Weather Permits
Weather conditions forced a two-day delay in the launch of the resupply mission to the International Space Station. Watch the live-stream here.
Largest Volcano ‘Super-Eruptions’ Need Massive Magma Reservoirs Deep Inside Earth, Research Shows
Research published this week claims the most powerful volcanic eruptions on Earth are rare because it takes a long time for that much magma to accumulate.
What Is The ‘Vermin Galaxy’? Hubble Captures Galaxy Transiting Behind Star HD 107146
The Hubble image, released Friday, shows the distant galaxy as it began its transit behind a star and its circumstellar disk of orbiting debris.
Extinct Sloth, Bison Bones Found In Los Angeles During Subway Work By Transportation Authority
The discovery, made in the middle of May but announced this week, is the second of its kind by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority this year.
Ancient Lake On Mars Was Stratified, Had Oxygen That Varied Across Depths
Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover showed conditions varying among different depths of the lake in Gale Crater on Mars that existed over three billion years ago.
Supermassive Black Holes In The Early Universe Likely Grew In ‘Fits And Spurts’
How those black holes grew to their enormous sizes in less than one billion years after the Big Bang is a long-standing problem in astrophysics.
Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Agreement, But What Is The Process For It?
President Donald Trump announced his decision Thursday to withdraw the U.S. from the climate deal, but the process of doing so could take years.
SpaceX ISS Cargo Mission For NASA Will Carry 3D Upgrade For Space Station Microscope
The SpaceX cargo mission for NASA, scheduled for a Thursday evening launch to resupply the International Space Station, will carry the upgrade module.
Complex Brain Evolution In Vertebrates Likely Began With Two Simple Parts, Not Three
Examining a recently found marine species that has been around for hundreds of millions of years challenges conventional understanding of brain evolution.
Future Circular Collider, Particle Accelerator To Succeed LHC, Will Be Three Times As Big
Called the Future Circular Collider, the planned particle accelerator will also be seven times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider.
