The search for life, which may be existing or already extinct, on planetary bodies is one of the main goals of planetary exploration missions conducted by NASA and other international space agencies.
- June 25, 2022
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While being particularly active this spring, the Sun has been sending out many M-class and X-class (the strongest class) flares as activity grows in the regular 11-year cycle of sunspots.
- June 24, 2022
All of the planets in the solar system can very rarely be seen clearly in one night. Planet parades are another name for these occasions.
- June 24, 2022
Curiosity’s scientific instruments discovered chemical and mineral traces of previous habitable conditions on Mars early in the mission.
- June 23, 2022
If this research is confirmed and verified, it will be an important step on the journey to a more complete understanding of the Universe.
- June 23, 2022
The researchers successfully demonstrated the detection of a signal with a frequency of 150 megahertz using a qubit detector with a frequency of 2.2 gigahertz in their experiments using a particular device…
- June 22, 2022
Nuclear pasta is so dense that a teaspoon of it would weigh over a billion tons. Models say nuclear pasta is a trillion times denser than water.
- June 21, 2022
Astronomers discover a new multi-planet system within our galactic neighborhood. The system lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth. At the heart of the system lies a small and cool M-dwarf star, named HD 260655, and astronomers have found that it hosts at least two terrestrial, Earth-sized...
- June 19, 2022
Astra’s seven attempts to reach orbit included test missions carrying no revenue-generating payloads and two which have been successful – the first in November last year and the second in March.
- June 13, 2022
Collisions between galaxy clusters release enormous amounts of energy unlike anything witnessed since the big bang and provide scientists with physics laboratories that are unavailable here on Earth.
- June 10, 2022
James Webb Telescope was designed to study the first galaxies ever formed, peer through dusty regions of space in search of stars and planetary systems in the process of forming, and examine young galaxies in the distant universe.
- June 9, 2022
Astronomers have recently identified two large as well as mysterious objects blasting out of the brightest black hole in the known universe. The supermassive black hole 3C 273, which is a quasar, was discovered in a 1959 survey of cosmic radio-wave sources. The light emitted by these behemoths is bright...
- June 9, 2022
The project is a source of pride among ordinary Chinese people, and caps President Xi Jinping’s 10 years as leader of the ruling Communist Party.
- June 5, 2022
One of the most mysterious objects for human beings, the concept of the black hole has always puzzled scientists. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, astronomers now say that an image of a huge, spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured. Part...
- June 3, 2022
According to NASA, the first images and spectroscopic observations will be made after each of Webb’s instruments has been calibrated, tested, and given the green light by its science and engineering teams.
- June 2, 2022